American Sketches Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGCHFIFJFJKLFFMF N OFONPFQRSTOUVWUXOY| CROSSING KANSAS BY TRAIN | A |
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| The telephone poles | B |
| Have been holding their | C |
| Arms out | D |
| A long time now | E |
| To birds | F |
| That will not | G |
| Settle there | C |
| But pass with | H |
| Strange cawings | F |
| Westward to | I |
| Where dark trees | F |
| Gather about a | J |
| Water hole this | F |
| Is Kansas the | J |
| Mountains start here | K |
| Just behind | L |
| The closed eyes | F |
| Of a farmer s | F |
| Sons asleep | M |
| In their work clothes | F |
| - | |
| POEM TO BE READ AT A M | N |
| - | |
| - | |
| Excepting the diner | O |
| On the outskirts | F |
| The town of Ladora | O |
| At A M | N |
| Was dark but | P |
| For my headlights | F |
| And up in | Q |
| One second story room | R |
| A single light | S |
| Where someone | T |
| Was sick or | O |
| Perhaps reading | U |
| As I drove past | V |
| At seventy | W |
| Not thinking | U |
| This poem | X |
| Is for whoever | O |
| Had the light on | Y |
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