Elsa Wertman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDAEFGAHIAJKLMANOP JDQ| I was a peasant girl from Germany | A |
| Blue eyed rosy happy and strong | B |
| And the first place I worked was at Thomas Greene's | C |
| On a summer's day when she was away | D |
| He stole into the kitchen and took me | A |
| Right in his arms and kissed me on my throat | E |
| I turning my head Then neither of us | F |
| Seemed to know what happened | G |
| And I cried for what would become of me | A |
| And cried and cried as my secret began to show | H |
| One day Mrs Greene said she understood | I |
| And would make no trouble for me | A |
| And being childless would adopt it | J |
| He had given her a farm to be still | K |
| So she hid in the house and sent out rumors | L |
| As if it were going to happen to her | M |
| And all went well and the child was born They were so kind to me | A |
| Later I married Gus Wertman and years passed | N |
| But at political rallies when sitters by thought I was crying | O |
| At the eloquence of Hamilton Greene | P |
| That was not it | J |
| No I wanted to say | D |
| That's my son That's my son | Q |
Edgar Lee Masters
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