The True-blue American Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEFGGHAIJKLK AMNOAEPQPRA| Jeremiah 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 |
Delmore Schwartz
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