Enoch Dunlap Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFFGBCHIJKLMNCN| How many times during the twenty years | A |
| I was your leader friends of Spoon River | B |
| Did you neglect the convention and caucus | C |
| And leave the burden on my hands | D |
| Of guarding and saving the people's cause | E |
| Sometimes because you were ill | F |
| Or your grandmother was ill | F |
| Or you drank too much and fell asleep | G |
| Or else you said He is our leader | B |
| All will be well he fights for us | C |
| We have nothing to do but follow | H |
| But oh how you cursed me when I fell | I |
| And cursed me saying I had betrayed you | J |
| In leaving the caucus room for a moment | K |
| When the people's enemies there assembled | L |
| Waited and watched for a chance to destroy | M |
| The Sacred Rights of the People | N |
| You common rabble I left the caucus | C |
| To go to the urinal | N |
Edgar Lee Masters
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