Vaudeville Dancer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C D E F| ELSIE FLIMMERWON you got a job now with a jazz outfit in vaudeville | A |
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| The houses go wild when you finish the act shimmying a fast shimmy to The Livery Stable Blues | B |
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| It is long ago Elsie Flimmerwon I saw your mother over a washtub in a grape arbor when your father came with the locomotor ataxia shuffle | C |
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| It is long ago Elsie and now they spell your name with an electric sign | D |
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| Then you were a little thing in checked gingham and your mother wiped your nose and said You little fool keep off the streets | E |
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| Now you are a big girl at last and streetfuls of people read your name and a line of people shaped like a letter S stand at the box office hoping to see you shimmy | F |
Carl Sandburg
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