Editor Whedon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLDMFDNAOP QRSTA| To be able to see every side of every question | A |
| To be on every side to be everything to be nothing long | B |
| To pervert truth to ride it for a purpose | C |
| To use great feelings and passions of the human family | D |
| For base designs for cunning ends | E |
| To wear a mask like the Greeks actors | F |
| Your eight page paper behind which you huddle | G |
| Bawling through the megaphone of big type | H |
| This is I the giant | I |
| Thereby also living the life of a sneak thief | J |
| Poisoned with the anonymous words | K |
| Of your clandestine soul | L |
| To scratch dirt over scandal for money | D |
| And exhume it to the winds for revenge | M |
| Or to sell papers | F |
| Crushing reputations or bodies if need be | D |
| To win at any cost save your own life | N |
| To glory in demoniac power ditching civilization | A |
| As a paranoiac boy puts a log on the track | O |
| And derails the express train | P |
| To be an editor as I was | Q |
| Then to lie here close by the river over the place | R |
| Where the sewage flows from the village | S |
| And the empty cans and garbage are dumped | T |
| And abortions are hidden | A |
Edgar Lee Masters
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