White Ash Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGA| THERE is a woman on Michigan Boulevard keeps a parrot and goldfish and two white mice | A |
| She used to keep a houseful of girls in kimonos and three pushbuttons on the front door | B |
| Now she is alone with a parrot and goldfish and two white mice but these are some of her thoughts | C |
| The love of a soldier on furlough or a sailor on shore leave burns with a bonfire red and saffron | D |
| The love of an emigrant workman whose wife is a thousand miles away burns with a blue smoke | E |
| The love of a young man whose sweetheart married an older man for money burns with a sputtering uncertain flame | F |
| And there is a love one in a thousand burns clean and is gone leaving a white ash | G |
| And this is a thought she never explains to the parrot and goldfish and two white mice | A |
Carl Sandburg
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