Telegram Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC AD| I SAW a telegram handed a two hundred pound man at a desk And the little scrap of paper charged the air like a set of crystals in a chemist's tube to a whispering pinch of salt | A |
| Cross my heart the two hundred pound man had just cracked a joke about a new hat he got his wife when the messenger boy slipped in and asked him to sign He gave the boy a nickel tore the envelope and read | B |
| Then he yelled 'Good God ' jumped for his hat and raincoat ran for the elevator and took a taxi to a railroad depot | C |
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| As I say it was like a set of crystals in a chemist's tube and a whispering pinch of salt | A |
| I wonder what Diogenes who lived in a tub in the sun would have commented on the affair | D |
| I know a shoemaker who works in a cellar slamming half soles onto shoes and when I told him he said 'I pay my bills I love my wife and I am not afraid of anybody ' | - |
Carl Sandburg
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