The Sign Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DDDEEFF GGGHIJHHH KKKLLL| There's not a soul on the square | A |
| And the snow blows up like a sail | B |
| Or dizzily drifts like a drunken man | C |
| Falling before the gale | B |
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| And when the wind eddies it rifts | D |
| The snow that lies in drifts | D |
| And it skims along the walk and sifts | D |
| In stairways doorways all about | E |
| The steps of the church in an angry rout | E |
| And one would think that a hungry hound | F |
| Was out in the cold for the sound | F |
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| But I do not seem to mind | G |
| The snow that makes one blind | G |
| Nor the crying voice of the wind | G |
| I hate to hear the creak of the sign | H |
| Of Harmon Whitney attorney at law | I |
| With its rhythmic monotone of awe | J |
| And neither a moan nor yet a whine | H |
| Nor a cry of pain one can't define | H |
| The sound of a creaking sign | H |
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| Especially if the sky be bleak | K |
| And no one stirs however you seek | K |
| And every time you hear it creak | K |
| You wonder why they leave it stay | L |
| When a man is buried and hidden away | L |
| Many a day | L |
Edgar Lee Masters
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