Out Of White Lips Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C D| OUT of white lips a question Shall seven million dead ask for their blood a little land for the living wives and children a little land for the living brothers and sisters | A |
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| Out of white lips Shall they have only air that sweeps round the earth for breath of their nostrils and no footing on the dirt of the earth for their battle drabbed battle soaked shoes | B |
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| Out of white lips Is the red in the flag the blood of a free man on a piece of land his own or is it the red of a sheep slit in the throat for mutton | C |
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| Out of white lips a white pain murmurs Who shall have land Him who has stood ankle deep in the blood of his comrades in the red trenches dug in the land | D |
Carl Sandburg
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