Poet Carl Sandburg

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Memoir Of A Proud Boy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEF GFCHI JHGK LMNOGP QRS GTUL V WXQY ZQ A2QQGG QB2 CQ

HE lived on the wings of stormA
The ashes are in ChihuahuaB
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Out of Ludlow and coal towns in ColoradoC
Sprang a vengeance of Slav miners Italians Scots Cornishmen YanksD
Killings ran under the spoken commands of this boyE
With eighty men and rifles on a hogback mountainF
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They killed swearing to rememberG
The shot and charred wives and childrenF
In the burnt camp of LudlowC
And Louis Tikas the laughing GreekH
Plugged with a bullet clubbed with a gun buttI
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As a home warJ
It held the nation a weekH
And one or two million men stood togetherG
And swore by the retribution of steelK
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It was all accidentalL
He lived flecking lint off coat lapelsM
Of men he talked withN
He kissed the miners' babiesO
And wrote a Denver paperG
Of picket silhouettes on a mountain lineP
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He had no mother but Mother JonesQ
Crying from a jail window of TrinidadR
'All I want is room enough to standS
And shake my fist at the enemies of the human race '-
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Named by a grand jury as a murdererG
He went to Chihuahua forgot his old Scotch nameT
Smoked cheroots with Pancho VillaU
And wrote letters of Villa as a rock of the peopleL
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How can I tell how Don Magregor wentV
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Three riders emptied lead into himW
He lay on the main street of an inland townX
A boy sat near all day throwing stonesQ
To keep pigs awayY
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The Villa men buried him in a pitZ
With twenty CarranzistasQ
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There is drama in that pointA2
the boy and the pigsQ
Griffith would make a movie of it to fetch sobsQ
Victor Herbert would have the drums whirrG
In a weave with a high fiddle string's single clamorG
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'And the muchacho sat there all day throwing stonesQ
To keep the pigs away ' wrote Gibbons to the TribuneB2
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Somewhere in Chihuahua or ColoradoC
Is a leather bag of poems and short storiesQ

Carl Sandburg



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