Mammy Hums Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE AF GHIJ KHLMMN| THIS is the song I rested with | A |
| The right shoulder of a strong man I leaned on | B |
| The face of the rain that drizzled on the short neck of a canal boat | C |
| The eyes of a child who slept while death went over and under | D |
| The petals of peony pink that fluttered in a shot of wind come and gone | E |
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| This is the song I rested with | A |
| Head heels and fingers rocked to the mammy humming of it to the mile off steamboat landing whistle of it | F |
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| The murmurs run with bees' wings | G |
| in a late summer sun | H |
| They go and come with white surf | I |
| slamming on a beach all day | J |
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| Get this | K |
| And then you may sleep with a late afternoon slumber sun | H |
| Then you may slip your head in an elbow knowing nothing only sleep | L |
| If so you sleep in the house of our song | M |
| If so you sleep under the apple trees of our song | M |
| Then the face of sleep must be the one face you were looking for | N |
Carl Sandburg
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