Portrait Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJKLMK DNOPQ| For S A TO write one book in five years | A |
| or five books in one year | B |
| to be the painter and the thing painted | C |
| where are we bo | D |
| - | |
| Wait get his number | E |
| The barber shop handling is here | F |
| and the tweeds the cheviot the Scotch Mist | G |
| and the flame orange scarf | H |
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| Yet there is more he sleeps under bridges | I |
| with lonely crazy men he sits in country | J |
| jails with bootleggers he adopts the children | K |
| of broken down burlesque actresses he has | L |
| cried a heart of tears for Windy MacPherson's | M |
| father he pencils wrists of lonely women | K |
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| Can a man sit at a desk in a skyscraper in Chicago | D |
| and be a harnessmaker in a corn town in Iowa | N |
| and feel the tall grass coming up in June | O |
| and the ache of the cottonwood trees | P |
| singing with the prairie wind | Q |
Carl Sandburg
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