Jerry Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMN| Six years I worked in a knitting mill at a machine | A |
| And then I married Jerry the iceman for a change | B |
| He weighed pounds and could hold me | C |
| Who weighed pounds outward easily with one hand | D |
| He came home drunk and lay on me with the breath of stale | E |
| beer | F |
| Blowing from him and jumbled talk that didn't mean anything | G |
| I stood it two years and one hot night when I refused him | H |
| And he struck his bare fist against my nose so it bled | I |
| I waited till he slept took a revolver from a bureau drawer | J |
| Placed the end of it to his head and pulled the trigger | K |
| From the stone walls where I am incarcerated for the natural | L |
| term | M |
| Of life I proclaim I would do it again | N |
Carl Sandburg
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