Momus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDC AAEFGAHIJC AKHLM GABCACNOAP| Momus is the name men give your face | A |
| The brag of its tone like a long low steamboat whistle | B |
| Finding a way mid mist on a shoreland | C |
| Where gray rocks let the salt water shatter spray | D |
| Against horizons purple silent | C |
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| Yes Momus | A |
| Men have flung your face in bronze | A |
| To gaze in gargoyle downward on a street whirl of folk | E |
| They were artists did this shaped your sad mouth | F |
| Gave you a tall forehead slanted with calm broad wisdom | G |
| All your lips to the corners and your cheeks to the high bones | A |
| Thrown over and through with a smile that forever | H |
| wishes and wishes purple silent fled from all the | I |
| iron things of life evaded like a sought bandit gone | J |
| into dreams by God | C |
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| I wonder Momus | A |
| Whether shadows of the dead sit somewhere and look | K |
| with deep laughter | H |
| On men who play in terrible earnest the old known | L |
| solemn repetitions of history | M |
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| A droning monotone soft as sea laughter hovers from | G |
| your kindliness of bronze | A |
| You give me the human ease of a mountain peak purple | B |
| silent | C |
| Granite shoulders heaving above the earth curves | A |
| Careless eye witness of the spawning tides of men and | C |
| women | N |
| Swarming always in a drift of millions to the dust of toil | O |
| the salt of tears | A |
| And blood drops of undiminishing war | P |
Carl Sandburg
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