Still Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDE FGHIJCHKKKL| COOL your heels on the rail of an observation car | A |
| Let the engineer open her up for ninety miles an hour | B |
| Take in the prairie right and left rolling land and new hay crops swaths of new hay laid in the sun | C |
| A gray village flecks by and the horses hitched in front of the post office never blink an eye | D |
| A barnyard and fifteen Holstein cows dabs of white on a black wall map never blink an eye | D |
| A signalman in a tower the outpost of Kansas City keeps his place at a window with the serenity of a bronze statue on a dark night when lovers pass whispering | E |
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| Sumach And Birds | F |
| IF you never came with a pigeon rainbow purple | G |
| Shining in the six o'clock September dusk | H |
| If the red sumach on the autumn roads | I |
| Never danced on the flame of your eyelashes | J |
| If the red haws never burst in a million | C |
| Crimson fingertwists of your heartcrying | H |
| If all this beauty of yours never crushed me | K |
| Then there are many flying acres of birds for me | K |
| Many drumming gray wings going home I shall see | K |
| Many crying voices riding the north wind | L |
Carl Sandburg
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