Banking Coal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADEF GHAHIGJKLMNHEEGA| Whoever it was who brought the first wood and coal | A |
| To start the Fire did his part well | B |
| Not all wood takes to fire from a match | C |
| Nor coal from wood before it s burned to charcoal | A |
| The wood and coal in question caught a flame | D |
| And flared up beautifully touching the air | E |
| That takes a flame from anything | F |
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| Somehow the fire was furnaced | G |
| And then the time was ripe for some to say | H |
| Right banking of the furnace saves the coal | A |
| I ve seen them set to work each in his way | H |
| Though all with shovels and with ashes | I |
| Never resting till the fire seemed most dead | G |
| Whereupon they d crawl in hooded night caps | J |
| Contentedly to bed Sometimes the fire left alone | K |
| Would die but like as not spiced tongues | L |
| Remaining by the hardest on till day would flicker up | M |
| Never strong to anyone who cared to rake for them | N |
| But roaring fires never have been made that way | H |
| I d like to tell those folks that one grand flare | E |
| Transferred to memory tissues of the air | E |
| Is worth a like or for dull minds that turn in gold | G |
| All money ever saved by banking coal | A |
Jean Toomer
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