Butch Weldy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMINGOPQR S| After I got religion and steadied down | A |
| They gave me a job in the canning works | B |
| And every morning I had to fill | C |
| The tank in the yard with gasoline | D |
| That fed the blow fires in the sheds | E |
| To heat the soldering irons | F |
| And I mounted a rickety ladder to do it | G |
| Carrying buckets full of the stuff | H |
| One morning as I stood there pouring | I |
| The air grew still and seemed to heave | J |
| And I shot up as the tank exploded | K |
| And down I came with both legs broken | L |
| And my eyes burned crisp as a couple of eggs | M |
| For someone left a blow fire going | I |
| And something sucked the flame in the tank | N |
| The Circuit Judge said whoever did it | G |
| Was a fellow servant of mine and so | O |
| Old Rhodes' son didn't have to pay me | P |
| And I sat on the witness stand as blind | Q |
| As lack the Fiddler saying over and over | R |
| l didn't know him at all | S |
Edgar Lee Masters
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