The Has-been Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCCDECB| A stone face higher than six horses stood five thousand | A |
| years gazing at the world seeming to clutch a secret | B |
| A boy passes and throws a niggerhead that chips off the | C |
| end of the nose from the stone face he lets fly a | C |
| mud ball that spatters the right eye and cheek of the | C |
| old looker on | D |
| The boy laughs and goes whistling ee ee ee ee ee ee | E |
| The stone face stands silent seeming to clutch a | C |
| secret | B |
Carl Sandburg
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