Albert Schirding Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHAIJKLMF| Jonas Keene thought his lot a hard one | A |
| Because his children were all failures | B |
| But I know of a fate more trying than that | C |
| It is to be a failure while your children are successes | D |
| For I raised a brood of eagles | E |
| Who flew away at last leaving me | F |
| A crow on the abandoned bough | G |
| Then with the ambition to prefix Honorable to my name | H |
| And thus to win my children's admiration | A |
| I ran for County Superintendent of Schools | I |
| Spending my accumulations to win and lost | J |
| That fall my daughter received first prize in Paris | K |
| For her picture entitled The Old Mill | L |
| It was of the water mill before Henry Wilkin put in steam | M |
| The feeling that I was not worthy of her finished me | F |
Edgar Lee Masters
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