Manhole Covers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHICJKLM| The beauty of manhole covers what of that | A |
| Like medals struck by a great savage khan | B |
| Like Mayan calendar stones unliftable indecipherable | C |
| Not like the old electrum chased and scored | D |
| Mottoed and sculptured to a turn | E |
| But notched and whelked and pocked and smashed | F |
| With the great company names | G |
| Gentle Bethlehem smiling United States | H |
| This rustproof artifact of my street | I |
| Long after roads are melted away will lie | C |
| Sidewise in the grave of the iron old world | J |
| Bitten at the edges | K |
| Strong with its cryptic American | L |
| Its dated beauty | M |
Karl Shapiro
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