The Hangman's Great Hands Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEFGHBIJKLMNOPQRSTU V| And all that is this day | A |
| The boy with cap slung over what had been a face | B |
| - | |
| Somehow the cop will sleep tonight will make love to his | C |
| wife | D |
| Anger won't help I was born angry Angry that my father was | E |
| being burnt alive in the mills Angry that none of us knew | F |
| anything but filth and poverty Angry because I was that very | G |
| one somebody was supposed To be fighting for | H |
| Turn him over take a good look at his face | B |
| Somebody is going to see that face for a long time | I |
| I wash his hands that in the brightness they will shine | J |
| We have a parent called the earth | K |
| To be these buds and trees this tameless bird Within the | L |
| ground this season's act upon the fields of Man | M |
| To be equal to the littlest thing alive | N |
| While all the swarming stars move silent through The merest | O |
| flower | P |
| but the fog of guns | Q |
| The face with all the draining future left blank Those smug | R |
| saints whether of church or Stalin Can get off the back of | S |
| my people and stay off Somebody is supposed to be fighting | T |
| for somebody And Lenin is terribly silent terribly silent | U |
| and dead | V |
Kenneth Patchen
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