Aner Clute Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMKNOPKQ| Over and over they used to ask me | A |
| While buying the wine or the beer | B |
| In Peoria first and later in Chicago | C |
| Denver Frisco New York wherever I lived | D |
| How I happened to lead the life | E |
| And what was the start of it | F |
| Well I told them a silk dress | G |
| And a promise of marriage from a rich man | H |
| It was Lucius Atherton | I |
| But that was not really it at all | J |
| Suppose a boy steals an apple | K |
| From the tray at the grocery store | L |
| And they all begin to call him a thief | M |
| The editor minister judge and all the people | K |
| A thief a thief a thief wherever he goes | N |
| And he can't get work and he can't get bread | O |
| Without stealing it why the boy will steal | P |
| It's the way the people regard the theft of the apple | K |
| That makes the boy what he is | Q |
Edgar Lee Masters
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