Poems Done On A Late Night Car Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGDHF I JKL MMNOJPQMRRJJS T PUBR| I CHICKENS | A |
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| I am The Great White Way of the city | B |
| When you ask what is my desire I answer | C |
| Girls fresh as country wild flowers | D |
| With young faces tired of the cows and barns | E |
| Eager in their eyes as the dawn to find my mysteries | F |
| Slender supple girls with shapely legs | G |
| Lure in the arch of their little shoulders | D |
| And wisdom from the prairies to cry only softly at | H |
| the ashes of my mysteries | F |
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| II USED UP | I |
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| Lines based on certain regrets that come with rumination | J |
| upon the painted faces of women on | K |
| North Clark Street Chicago | L |
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| Roses | M |
| Red roses | M |
| Crushed | N |
| In the rain and wind | O |
| Like mouths of women | J |
| Beaten by the fists of | P |
| Men using them | Q |
| O little roses | M |
| And broken leaves | R |
| And petal wisps | R |
| You that so flung your crimson | J |
| To the sun | J |
| Only yesterday | S |
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| III HOME | T |
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| Here is a thing my heart wishes the world had more of | P |
| I heard it in the air of one night when I listened | U |
| To a mother singing softly to a child restless and angry | B |
| in the darkness | R |
Carl Sandburg
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