Somebody Knew Lincoln Somebody Xerxes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCD EF GHIJ KLHMJJNOG JCPQ PRSP TU PCPSVGRK W V| somebody knew Lincoln somebody Xerxes | A |
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| this man a narrow thudding timeshaped face | B |
| plus innocuous winking hands carefully | C |
| inhabits number on something street | D |
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| Spring comes | E |
| the lean and definite houses | F |
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| are troubled A sharp blue day | G |
| fills with peacefully leaping air | H |
| the minute mind of the world | I |
| The lean and | J |
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| definite houses are | K |
| troubled in the sunset their chimneys converse | L |
| angrily their | H |
| roofs are nervous with the soft furious | M |
| light and while fire escapes and | J |
| roofs and chimneys and while roofs and fire escapes and | J |
| chimeys and while chimneys and fire escapes | N |
| and roofs are talking rapidly all together there happens | O |
| Something and They | G |
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| cease and | J |
| one by one are turned suddenly and softly | C |
| into irresponsible toys | P |
| when this man with | Q |
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| the brittle legs winces | P |
| swiftly out of number someThing | R |
| street and trickles carefully into the park | S |
| sits | P |
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| Down pigeons circle | T |
| around and around and around the | U |
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| irresponsible toys | P |
| circle wildly in the slow ly in creasing fragility | C |
| Dogs | P |
| bark | S |
| children | V |
| play | G |
| ing | R |
| Are | K |
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| in the beautiful nonsense of twilight | W |
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| and somebody Napoleon | V |
E. E. Cummings
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