The True-blue American Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEFGGHAIJKLK AMNOAEPQPRAJeremiah Dickson was a true blue American | A |
For he was a little boy who understood America for he felt that he must | B |
Think about everything because that s all there is to think about | C |
Knowing immediately the intimacy of truth and comedy | D |
Knowing intuitively how a sense of humor was a necessity | D |
For one and for all who live in America Thus natively and | E |
Naturally when on an April Sunday in an ice cream parlor Jeremiah | F |
Was requested to choose between a chocolate sundae and a banana split | G |
He answered unhesitatingly having no need to think of it | G |
Being a true blue American determined to continue as he began | H |
Rejecting the either or of Kierkegaard and many another European | A |
Refusing to accept alternatives refusing to believe the choice of between | I |
Rejecting selection denying dilemma electing absolute affirmation knowing | J |
in his breast | K |
The infinite and the gold | L |
Of the endless frontier the deathless West | K |
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Both I will have them both declared this true blue American | A |
In Cambridge Massachusetts on an April Sunday instructed | M |
By the great department stores by the Five and Ten | N |
Taught by Christmas by the circus by the vulgarity and grandeur of | O |
Niagara Falls and the Grand Canyon | A |
Tutored by the grandeur vulgarity and infinite appetite gratified and | E |
Shining in the darkness of the light | P |
On Saturdays at the double bills of the moon pictures | Q |
The consummation of the advertisements of the imagination of the light | P |
Which is as it was the infinite belief in infinite hope of Columbus | R |
Barnum Edison and Jeremiah Dickson | A |
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