Dora Williams Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGCHCGIJCKLJMNO PQRHH| When Reuben Pantier ran away and threw me | A |
| I went to Springfield There I met a lush | B |
| Whose father just deceased left him a fortune | C |
| He married me when drunk | D |
| My life was wretched | E |
| A year passed and one day they found him dead | F |
| That made me rich I moved on to Chicago | G |
| After a time met Tyler Rountree villain | C |
| I moved on to New York A gray haired magnate | H |
| Went mad about me so another fortune | C |
| He died one night right in my arms you know | G |
| I saw his purple face for years thereafter | I |
| There was almost a scandal | J |
| I moved on This time to Paris I was now a woman | C |
| Insidious subtle versed in the world and rich | K |
| My sweet apartment near the Champs Eacute lys eacute es | L |
| Became a center for all sorts of people | J |
| Musicians poets dandies artists nobles | M |
| Where we spoke French and German Italian English | N |
| I wed Count Navigato native of Genoa | O |
| We went to Rome He poisoned me I think | P |
| Now in the Campo Santo overlooking | Q |
| The sea where young Columbus dreamed new worlds | R |
| See what they chiseled Contessa Navigato | H |
| Implora eterna quiete | H |
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