Eugene Carman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOMPHHJ QR| Rhodes' slave Selling shoes and gingham | A |
| Flour and bacon overalls clothing all day long | B |
| For fourteen hours a day for three hundred and thirteen days | C |
| For more than twenty years | D |
| Saying Yes'm and Yes sir and Thank you | E |
| A thousand times a day and all for fifty dollars a month | F |
| Living in this stinking room in the rattle trap Commercial | G |
| And compelled to go to Sunday School and to listen | H |
| To the Rev Abner Peet one hundred and four times a year | I |
| For more than an hour at a time | J |
| Because Thomas Rhodes ran the church | K |
| As well as the store and the bank | L |
| So while I was tying my neck tie that morning | M |
| I suddenly saw myself in the glass | N |
| My hair all gray my face like a sodden pie | O |
| So I cursed and cursed You damned old thing | M |
| You cowardly dog You rotten pauper | P |
| You Rhodes' slave Till Roger Baughman | H |
| Thought I was having a fight with some one | H |
| And looked through the transom just in time | J |
| To see me fall on the floor in a heap | Q |
| From a broken vein in my head | R |
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