Money Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDAEFGHIJKELDMNOPQR ESTUVWDXYZEA2B2C2D2E E2EF2G2H2H2I2J2EK2IL 2| An introductory lecture | A |
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| This morning we shall spend a few minutes | B |
| Upon the study of symbolism which is basic | C |
| To the nature of money I show you this nickel | D |
| Icons and cryptograms are written all over | A |
| The nickel one side shows a hunchbacked bison | E |
| Bending his head and curling his tail to accommodate | F |
| The circular nature of money Over him arches | G |
| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and squinched in | H |
| Between that and his rump E PLURIBUS UNUM | I |
| A Roman reminiscence that appears to mean | J |
| An indeterminately large number of things | K |
| All of which are the same Under the bison | E |
| A straight line giving him a ground to stand on | L |
| Reads FIVE CENTS And on the other side of our nickel | D |
| There is the profile of a man with long hair | M |
| And a couple of feathers in the hair we know | N |
| Somehow that he is an American Indian and | O |
| He wears the number nineteen thirty six | P |
| Right in front of his eyes the word LIBERTY bent | Q |
| To conform with the curve of the rim appears | R |
| To be falling out of the sky Y first the Indian | E |
| Keeps his eyes downcast and does not notice this | S |
| To notice it indeed would be shortsighted of him | T |
| So much for the iconography of one of our nickels | U |
| Which is now becoming a rarity and something of | V |
| A collectors item for as a matter of fact | W |
| There is almost nothing you can buy with a nickel | D |
| The representative American Indian was destroyed | X |
| A hundred years or so ago and his descendants | Y |
| Relations with liberty are maintained with reservations | Z |
| Or primitive concentration camps while the bison | E |
| Except for a few examples kept in cages | A2 |
| Is now extinct Something like that I think | B2 |
| Is what Keats must have meant in his celebrated | C2 |
| Ode on a Grecian Urn | D2 |
| Notice in conclusion | E |
| A number of circumstances sometimes overlooked | E2 |
| Even by experts a Indian and bison | E |
| Confined to obverse and reverse of the coin | F2 |
| Can never see each other they are looking | G2 |
| In opposite directions the bison past | H2 |
| The Indian s feathers the Indian past | H2 |
| The bison s tail c they are upside down | I2 |
| To one another d the bison has a human face | J2 |
| Somewhat resembling that of Jupiter Ammon | E |
| I hope that our studies today will have shown you | K2 |
| Something of the import of symbolism | I |
| With respect to the understanding of what is symbolized | L2 |
Howard Nemerov
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