Wilderness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B A C A C C| THERE is a wolf in me fangs pointed for tearing gashes a red tongue for raw meat and the hot lapping of blood I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go | A |
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| There is a fox in me a silver gray fox I sniff and guess I pick things out of the wind and air I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers I circle and loop and double cross | B |
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| There is a hog in me a snout and a belly a machinery for eating and grunting a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go | A |
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| There is a fish in me I know I came from saltblue water gates I scurried with shoals of herring I blew waterspouts with porpoises before land was before the water went down before Noah before the first chapter of Genesis | C |
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| There is a baboon in me clambering clawed dog faced yawping a galoot's hunger hairy under the armpits here are the hawk eyed hankering men here are the blond and blue eyed women here they hide curled asleep waiting ready to snarl and kill ready to sing and give milk waiting I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so | A |
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| There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness | C |
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| O I got a zoo I got a menagerie inside my ribs under my bony head under my red valve heart and I got something else it is a man child heart a woman child heart it is a father and mother and lover it came from God Knows Where it is going to God Knows Where For I am the keeper of the zoo I say yes and no I sing and kill and work I am a pal of the world I came from the wilderness | C |
Carl Sandburg
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