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MONOTONE by CARL SANDBURG

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE MONOTONE OF THE RAIN IS BEAUTIFUL
Last Line: AND THE PEACE OF LONG WARM RAIN.
Subject(s): BEAUTY;
THE monotone of the rain is beautiful,
And the sudden rise and slow relapse
Of the long multitudinous rain.

The sun on the hills is beautiful,
Or a captured sunset sea-flung,
Bannered with fire and gold.

A face I know is beautiful --
With fire and gold of sky and sea,
And the peace of long warm rain.



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