Threes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCA ADEFA AGFHI FAJK| I was a boy when I heard three red words | A |
| a thousand Frenchmen died in the streets | B |
| for Liberty Equality Fraternity I asked | C |
| why men die for words | A |
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| I was older men with mustaches sideburns | A |
| lilacs told me the high golden words are | D |
| Mother Home and Heaven other older men with | E |
| face decorations said God Duty Immortality | F |
| they sang these threes slow from deep lungs | A |
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| Years ticked off their say so on the great clocks | A |
| of doom and damnation soup and nuts meteors flashed | G |
| their say so and out of great Russia came three | F |
| dusky syllables workmen took guns and went out to die | H |
| for Bread Peace Land | I |
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| And I met a marine of the U S A a leatherneck with a girl on his knee | F |
| for a memory in ports circling the earth and he said Tell me how to say | A |
| three things and I always get by gimme a plate of ham and eggs how | J |
| much and do you love me kid | K |
Carl Sandburg
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