Two Items Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH| STRONG rocks hold up the riksdag bridge always strong river waters shoving their shoulders against them | A |
| In the riksdag to night three hundred men are talking to each other about more potatoes and bread for the Swedish people to eat this winter | B |
| In a boat among calm waters next to the running waters a fisherman sits in the dark and I leaning at a parapet see him lift a net and let it down he waits the waters run the riksdag talks he lifts the net and lets it down | C |
| Stars lost in the sky ten days of drizzle spread over the sky saying yes yes | D |
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| Every afternoon at four o'clock fifteen apple women who have sold their apples in Christiania meet at a coffee house and gab | E |
| Every morning at nine o'clock a girl wipes the windows of a hotel across the street from the post office in Stockholm | F |
| I have pledged them when I go to California next summer and see the orange groves splattered with yellow balls | G |
| I shall remember other people half way round the world | H |
Carl Sandburg
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