Kalamazoo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC ABDADECEFABF GGHIHIAJKJJGDIIACLMM LNBN OBPQBAAACAMAA C| Once in the city of Kalamazoo | A |
| The gods went walking two and two | A |
| With the friendly phoenix the stars of Orion | B |
| The speaking pony and singing lion | B |
| For in Kalamazoo in a cottage apart | C |
| Lived the girl with the innocent heart | C |
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| Thenceforth the city of Kalamazoo | A |
| Was the envied intimate chum of the sun | B |
| He rose from a cave by the principal street | D |
| The lions sang the dawn horns blew | A |
| And the ponies danced on silver feet | D |
| He hurled his clouds of love around | E |
| Deathless colors of his old heart | C |
| Draped the houses and dyed the ground | E |
| O shrine of the wide young Yankee land | F |
| Incense city of Kalamazoo | A |
| That held in the midnight the priceless sun | B |
| As a jeweller holds an opal in hand | F |
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| From the awkward city of Oshkosh came | G |
| Love the bully no whip shall tame | G |
| Bringing his gang of sinners bold | H |
| And I was the least of his Oshkosh men | I |
| But none were reticent none were old | H |
| And we joined the singing phoenix then | I |
| And shook the lilies of Kalamazoo | A |
| All for one hidden butterfly | J |
| Bulls of glory in cars of war | K |
| We charged the boulevards proud to die | J |
| For her ribbon sailing there on high | J |
| Our blood set gutters all aflame | G |
| Where the sun slept without any heat | D |
| Cold rock till he must rise again | I |
| She made great poets of wolf eyed men | I |
| The dear queen bee of Kalamazoo | A |
| With her crystal wings and her honey heart | C |
| We fought for her favors a year and a day | L |
| Oh the bones of the dead the Oshkosh dead | M |
| That were scattered along her pathway red | M |
| And then in her harum scarum way | L |
| She left with a passing traveller man | N |
| With a singing Irishman | B |
| Went to Japan | N |
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| Why do the lean hyenas glare | O |
| 'Where the glory of Artemis had begun | B |
| Of Atalanta Joan of Arc | P |
| Cinderella Becky Thatcher | Q |
| And Orphant Annie all in one | B |
| Who burned this city of Kalamazoo | A |
| Till nothing was left but a ribbon or two | A |
| One scorched phoenix that mourned in the dew | A |
| Acres of ashes a junk man's cart | C |
| A torn up letter a dancing shoe | A |
| And the bones of the dead the dead | M |
| Who burned this city of Kalamazoo | A |
| Love town Troy town Kalamazoo | A |
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| A harum scarum innocent heart | C |
Vachel Lindsay
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