Felix Schmidt Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGFHIFJKLMNOAPQ RS| It was only a little house of two rooms | A |
| Almost like a child's play house | B |
| With scarce five acres of ground around it | C |
| And I had so many children to feed | D |
| And school and clothe and a wife who was sick | E |
| From bearing children | F |
| One day lawyer Whitney came along | G |
| And proved to me that Christian Dallman | F |
| Who owned three thousand acres of land | H |
| Had bought the eighty that adjoined me | I |
| In eighteen hundred and seventy one | F |
| For eleven dollars at a sale for taxes | J |
| While my father lay in his mortal illness | K |
| So the quarrel arose and I went to law | L |
| But when we came to the proof | M |
| A survey of the land showed clear as day | N |
| That Dallman's tax deed covered my ground | O |
| And my little house of two rooms | A |
| It served me right for stirring him up | P |
| I lost my case and lost my place | Q |
| I left the court room and went to work | R |
| As Christian Dallman's tenant | S |
Edgar Lee Masters
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