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Sara Teasdale’s “Places” is a lyric poem. It discusses the narrator’s personal feelings about the places she loves: “Places I love come back to me like music, / Hush me and heal me when I am very tired;”
Teasdale follows a regular rhyming pattern in “Places”:
A blue and white dazzling light on everything one sees,
The ice-covered branches of the hemlocks sparkle
Bending low and tinkling in the sharp thin breeze,
Teasdale uses vivid description to discuss nature:
I know a bright world of snowy hills at Boonton,
A blue and white dazzling light on everything one sees,
The ice-covered branches of the hemlocks sparkle
Bending low and tinkling in the sharp thin breeze,
Carl Sandburg’s “Chicago” is a free-verse poem. It doesn’t follow any clear rhyme or rhythm pattern, and the lines of the poems vary in length:
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the Big Shoulders:
They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your
painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.
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