Personality Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBDEFGHIJKLMJ| Musings of a Police Reporter in the Identification Bureau | A |
| - | |
| You have loved forty women but you have only one thumb | B |
| You have led a hundred secret lives but you mark only | C |
| one thumb | B |
| You go round the world and fight in a thousand wars and | D |
| win all the world's honors but when you come back | E |
| home the print of the one thumb your mother gave | F |
| you is the same print of thumb you had in the old | G |
| home when your mother kissed you and said good by | H |
| Out of the whirling womb of time come millions of men | I |
| and their feet crowd the earth and they cut one anothers' | J |
| throats for room to stand and among them all | K |
| are not two thumbs alike | L |
| Somewhere is a Great God of Thumbs who can tell the | M |
| inside story of this | J |
Carl Sandburg
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