The Hangman At Home Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEBFAGHIJKLMFDFNO PQRJRS| What does a hangman think about | A |
| When he goes home at night from work | B |
| When he sits down with his wife and | C |
| Children for a cup of coffee and a | D |
| Plate of ham and eggs do they ask | E |
| Him if it was a good day's work | B |
| And everything went well or do they | F |
| Stay off some topics and kill about | A |
| The weather baseball politics | G |
| And the comic strips in the papers | H |
| And the movies Do they look at his | I |
| Hands when he reaches for the coffee | J |
| Or the ham and eggs If the little | K |
| Ones say Daddy play horse here's | L |
| A rope does he answer like a joke | M |
| I seen enough rope for today | F |
| Or does his face light up like a | D |
| Bonfire of joy and does he say | F |
| It's a good and dandy world we live | N |
| 'In And if a white face moon looks | O |
| In through a window where a baby girl | P |
| Sleeps and the moon gleams mix with | Q |
| Baby ears and baby hair the hangman | R |
| How does he act then It must be easy | J |
| For him Anything is easy for a hangman | R |
| I guess | S |
Carl Sandburg
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