Found Poem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BA CD EF AG DH IA DJ K| after information received in The St Louis Post Dispatch v | A |
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| The population center of the USA | B |
| Has shifted to Potosi in Missouri | A |
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| The calculation employed by authorities | C |
| In arriving at this dislocation assumes | D |
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| That the country is a geometric plane | E |
| Perfectly flat and that every citizen | F |
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| Including those in Alaska and Hawaii | A |
| And the District of Columbia weighs the same | G |
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| So that given these simple presuppositions | D |
| The entire bulk and spread of all the people | H |
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| Should theoretically balance on the point | I |
| Of a needle under Potosi in Missouri | A |
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| Where no one is residing nowadays | D |
| But the watchman over an abandoned mine | J |
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| Whence the company got the lead out and left | K |
| 'It gets pretty lonely here ' he says 'at night ' | - |
Howard Nemerov
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