The Lawyers Know Too Much Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFG HIIJ KHLM DMNO KPNQINII| The lawyers Bob know too much | A |
| They are chums of the books of old John Marshall | B |
| They know it all what a dead hand wrote | C |
| A stiff dead hand and its knuckles crumbling | D |
| The bones of the fingers a thin white ash | E |
| The lawyers know | F |
| a dead man's thought too well | G |
| - | |
| In the heels of the higgling lawyers Bob | H |
| Too many slippery ifs and buts and howevers | I |
| Too much hereinbefore provided whereas | I |
| Too many doors to go in and out of | J |
| - | |
| When the lawyers are through | K |
| What is there left Bob | H |
| Can a mouse nibble at it | L |
| And find enough to fasten a tooth in | M |
| - | |
| Why is there always a secret singing | D |
| When a lawyer cashes in | M |
| Why does a hearse horse snicker | N |
| Hauling a lawyer away | O |
| - | |
| The work of a bricklayer goes to the blue | K |
| The knack of a mason outlasts a moon | P |
| The hands of a plasterer hold a room together | N |
| The land of a farmer wishes him back again | Q |
| Singers of songs and dreamers of plays | I |
| Build a house no wind blows over | N |
| The lawyers tell me why a hearse horse snickers | I |
| hauling a lawyer's bones | I |
Carl Sandburg
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