Salvage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDAEAFGHIJKHLMNEOP B| Guns on the battle lines have pounded now a year | A |
| between Brussels and Paris | B |
| And William Morris when I read your old chapter on | C |
| the great arches and naves and little whimsical | D |
| corners of the Churches of Northern France Brr rr | A |
| I'm glad you're a dead man William Morris I'm glad | E |
| you're down in the damp and mouldy only a memory | A |
| instead of a living man I'm glad you're gone | F |
| You never lied to us William Morris you loved the | G |
| shape of those stones piled and carved for you to | H |
| dream over and wonder because workmen got joy | I |
| of life into them | J |
| Workmen in aprons singing while they hammered and | K |
| praying and putting their songs and prayers into | H |
| the walls and roofs the bastions and cornerstones | L |
| and gargoyles all their children and kisses of | M |
| women and wheat and roses growing | N |
| I say William Morris I'm glad you're gone I'm glad | E |
| you're a dead man | O |
| Guns on the battle lines have pounded a year now between | P |
| Brussels and Paris | B |
Carl Sandburg
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