Potomac River Mist Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDD EFGHIJ KF FLH| All the policemen saloonkeepers and efficiency experts in Toledo | A |
| knew Bern Dailey secretary ten years when Whitlock was mayor | B |
| Pickpockets yeggs three card men he knew them all and how they flit | C |
| from zone to zone birds of wind and weather singers fighters | D |
| scavengers | D |
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| The Washington monument pointed to a new moon for us | E |
| and a gang from over the river sang ragtime to a ukelele | F |
| The river mist marched up and down the Potomac we hunted | G |
| the fog swept Lincoln Memorial white as a blond woman's arm | H |
| We circled the city of Washington and came back home four o'clock in the morning | I |
| passing a sign House Where Abraham Lincoln Died Admission Cents | J |
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| I got a letter from him in Sweden and I sent him a postcard from Norway | K |
| every newspaper from America ran news of the flu | F |
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| The path of a night fog swept up the river to the Lincoln Memorial | F |
| when I saw it again and alone at a winter's end the marble in the mist | L |
| white as a blond woman's arm | H |
Carl Sandburg
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