Gregory Wenner Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Gregory Wenner's brother married the mother	A
Of Alma Bell the daughter of a marriage	B
The mother made before Kinship enough	C
To justify a call on Wenner's power	A
When Alma Bell was face to face with shame	D
And Gregory Wenner went to help the girl	E
And for a moment looked on Elenor Murray	F
Who left the school room passing through the hall	G
A girl of seventeen He left his business	H
Of massing millions in the city to help	I
Poor Alma Bell and three years afterward	J
In the Garden of the Gods he saw again	K
The face of Elenor Murray what a fate	L
For Gregory Wenner	A
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But when Alma Bell	M
Wrote him for help his mind was roiled with cares	N
A money magnate had signed up a loan	O
For half a million to which Wenner added	P
That much beside earned since his thirtieth year	Q
Now forty two with which to build a block	R
Of sixteen stories on a piece of ground	S
Leased in the loop for nine and ninety years	T
But now a crabbed miser much away	U
Following the sun and reached through agents lawyers	V
Owning the land next to the Wenner land	W
Refused to have the sixteen story wall	G
Adjoin his wall without he might select	X
His son in law as architect to plan	Y
The sixteen story block of Gregory Wenner	A
And Gregory Wenner caught in such a trap	Z
The loan already bargained for and bound	S
In a hard money lender's giant grasp	A2
Consented to the terms let son in law	B2
Make plans and supervise the work	C2
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Five years	T
Go by before the evil blossoms fully	F
But here's the bud Gregory Wenner spent	D2
His half a million on the building also	E2
Four hundred thousand of the promised loan	O
Made by the money magnate then behold	F2
The money magnate said You cannot have	G2
Another dollar for the bonds you give	H2
Are scarcely worth the sum delivered now	I2
Pursuant to the contract I have learned	J2
Your architect has blundered in five years	T
Your building will be leaning soon enough	C
It will be wrecked by order of the city	F
And Gregory Wenner found he spoke the truth	K2
But went ahead to finish up the building	L2
And raked and scraped fell back on friends for loans	M2
Mortgaged his home for money just to finish	N2
This sixteen story building kept a hope	O2
The future would reclaim him	P2
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Gregory Wenner	A
Who seemed so powerful in his place in life	Q2
Had all along this cancer in his life	Q2
He owned the building but he owed the money	F
And all the time the building took a slant	R2
By just a little every year And time	S2
Made matters worse for him increased his foes	T2
As he stood for the city in its warfares	T2
Against the surface railways telephones	T2
And earned thereby the wrath of money lenders	T2
Who made it hard for him to raise a loan	O
Who needed loans habitually Besides	T2
He had the trouble of an invalid wife	Q2
Who went from hospitals to sanitariums	T2
And traveled south and went in search of health	U2
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Now Gregory Wenner reaches forty five	V2
He's fought a mighty battle but grows tired	J
The building leans a little more each year	Q
And money as before is hard to get	W2
And yet he lives and keeps a hope	O2
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At last	X2
He does not feel so well has dizzy spells	T2
The doctor recommends a change of scene	Y2
And Gregory Wenner starts to see the west	Z2
He visits Denver Then upon a day	U
He walks about the Garden of the Gods	T2
And sees a girl who stands alone and looks	T2
About the Garden's wonders Then he sees	T2
The girl is Elenor Murray who has grown	O
To twenty years who looks that seventeen	Y2
When first he saw her He remembers her	A
And speaks of Alma Bell that Alma Bell	M
Is kindred to him Where is Alma Bell	M
He has not heard about her in these years	T2
And Elenor Murray colors and says Look	A3
There is a white cloud on the mountain top	B3
And thus the talk commences	T2
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Elenor Murray	F
Shows forth the vital spirit that is hers	T2
She dances on her toes and crows in wonder	A
Flings up her arms in rapture What a world	C3
Of beauty and of hope For not her life	Q2
Of teaching school a school of Czechs and Poles	T2
There near LeRoy since she left school and taught	D3
These two years now nor arid life at home	E3
Her father sullen and her mother saddened	F3
Nor yet that talk of Alma Bell and her	A
That like a corpse's gas has scented her	A
And made her struggles harder in LeRoy	G3
Not these have quenched her flame or made it burn	H3
Less brightly Though at last she left LeRoy	G3
To fly old things the dreary home begin	I3
A new life teaching in Los Angeles	T2
Gregory Wenner studies her and thinks	T2
That Alma Bell was right to reprimand	W
Elenor Murray for her reckless ways	T2
Of strolling and of riding And perhaps	T2
Real things were back of ways to be construed	J3
In innocence or wisdom for who knows	T2
His thought ran Such a pretty face blue eyes	T2
And such a buoyant spirit	K3
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So they wandered	J
About the Garden of the Gods and took	A3
A meal together at the restaurant	L3
And as they talked he told her of himself	M3
About his wife long ill this trip for health	U2
She sensed a music sadness in his soul	N3
And Gregory Wenner heard her tell her life	Q2
Of teaching of the arid home the shadow	E2
That fell on her at ten years when she saw	T2
The hopeless loveless life of father mother	A
And his great hunger and his solitude	J3
Reached for the soothing hand of Elenor Murray	F
And Elenor Murray having life to give	H2
By her maternal strength and instinct gave	O3
The man began to laugh forgot his health	U2
The leaning building and the money lenders	T2
And found his void of spirit growing things	T2
He loved this girl And Elenor Murray seeing	L2
This strong man with his love and seeing too	P3
How she could help him with that venturesome	Q3
And prodigal emotion which was hers	T2
Flung all herself to help him being a soul	N3
Who tried all things in courage staked her heart	R3
On good to come	Q3
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They took the train together	A
They stopped at Santa Cruz and on the rocks	T2
Heard the Pacific dash himself and watched	S3
The moon upon the water breathed the scent	D2
Of oriental flowerings There at last	X2
Under the spell of nature Gregory Wenner	A
Bowed down his head upon his breast and shook	A3
For those long years of striving and of haggling	L2
And for this girl but mostly for a love	T3
That filled him now And when he spoke again	K
Of his starved life his homeless years the girl	E
Her mind resolved through thinking she could serve	U3
This man and bring him happiness but with heart	R3
Flaming to heaven with the miracle	V3
Of love for him down looking at her hands	T2
Which fingered nervously her dress's hem	W3
Said with that gasp which made her voice so sweet	X3
Do what you will with me to ease your heart	R3
And help your life	Q2
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And Gregory Wenner shaken	Y3
Astonished and made mad with ecstasy	F
Pressed her brown head against his breast and wept	Z3
And there at Santa Cruz they lived a week	A4
Till Elenor Murray went to take her school	B4
He to the north en route for home	E3
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Five years	T2
Had passed since then And on this day poor Wenner	A
Looks from a little office at his building	L2
Visibly leaning now the building lost	C4
The bonds foreclosed this is the very day	U
A court gives a receiver charge of it	D4
And he these several months reduced to deals	T2
In casual properties in trivial trades	T2
Hard pressed for money has gone up and down	E4
Pursuing prospects possibilities	T2
Scanning each day financial sheets and looking	L2
For clues to lead to money And he finds	T2
His strength and hope not what they were before	F4
His wife is living on no whit restored	G4
And Gregory Wenner thinks would they not say	U
I killed myself because I lost my building	L2
If I should kill myself and leave a note	H4
That business worries drove me to the deed	I4
My building this day taken a receiver	A
In charge of what I builded out of my dream	J4
And yet he said to self that would be false	T2
It's Elenor Murray's death that makes this life	Q2
So hard to bear and thoughts of Elenor Murray	F
Make life a torture First that I had to live	V2
Without her as my wife and next the fact	K4
That I have taken all her life's thought ruined	F3
Her chance for home and marriage that I have seen	Y2
Elenor Murray struggle in the world	C3
And go forth to the war with just the thought	D3
To serve if it should kill her	A
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Then his mind	L4
Ran over these five years when Elenor Murray	F
Throughout gave such devotion constant thought	D3
Filled all his mind and heart and kept her voice	T2
Singing or talking in his memory's ear	M4
In absence with long letters when together	A
With passionate utterances of love The girl	E
Loved Gregory Wenner but the girl had found	S
A comfort for her spiritual solitude	J3
And got a strength in taking Wenner's strength	N4
For at the last one soul lives on another	A
And Elenor Murray could not live except	Z3
She had a soul to live for and a soul	N3
On which to pour her passion taking back	O4
The passion of that soul in recompense	T2
Gregory Wenner served her power and genius	T2
For giving and for taking so to live	V2
Achieve and flame and found them in some moods	T2
Somehow demoniac when his spirits sank	P4
And drink was all that kept him on his feet	X3
And so when Elenor Murray came to him	P2
And said this life of teaching was too much	Q4
Could not be longer borne he thought the time	S2
Had come to end the hopeless love He raised	R4
The money by the hardest means to pay	U
Elenor Murray's training as a nurse	T2
By this to set her free from teaching school	B4
And then he set about to crush the girl	E
Out of his life	Q2
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For Gregory Wenner saw	T2
Between this passion and his failing thought	D3
And gray hairs coming fortune slip like sand	W
And saw his mind diffuse itself in worries	T2
In longing for her found himself at times	T2
Too much in need of drink and shrank to see	F
What wishes rose that death might take his wife	Q2
And let him marry Elenor Murray cure	S4
His life with having her beside him dreaming	L2
That somehow Elenor Murray could restore	F4
His will and vision by her passion's touch	Q4
And mother instinct make him whole again	K
But if he could not have her for his wife	Q2
And since the girl absorbed him in this life	Q2
Of separation which made longing greater	A
Just as it lacked the medium to discharge	T4
The great emotion it created Wenner	A
Caught up his shreds of strength to crush her out	U4
Of his life told her so when he had raised	R4
The money for her training For he saw	T2
How ruin may overtake a man and ruin	Y3
Pass by the woman whom the world would judge	V4
As ruined long ago But look he thought	D3
I pity her not for our sin if it be	F
But that I have absorbed her life and yet	W2
The girl is mastering life while I fall down	E4
She has absorbed me if the wrong lies here	M4
And thus his thought went round	S
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And Elenor Murray	F
Accepted what he said and went her way	U
With words like these My love and prayers are yours	T2
While life is with us Then she turned to study	F
And toiled each day till night brought such fatigue	W4
That sleep fell on her Was it to forget	W2
And meanwhile she embraced the faith and poured	G4
Her passion driven by a rapturous will	X4
Into religion trod her path in silence	T2
Save for a card at Christmas time for him	P2
Sometimes a little message from some place	T2
Whereto her duty called her	A
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Gregory Wenner	A
Stands at the window of his desolate office	T2
And looks out on his sixteen story building	L2
Irrevocably lost this day His mind runs back	O4
To that day in the Garden of the Gods	T2
That night at Santa Cruz and then his eyes	T2
Made piercing sharp by sorrow cleave the clay	U
That lies upon the face of Elenor Murray	F
And see the flesh of her the worms have now	I2
How strange he thinks to flit into this life	Q2
Singing and radiant to suffer toil	Y4
To serve in the war return to girlhood's scenes	T2
To die to be a memory for a day	U
Then be forgotten O this life of ours	T2
Why is not God ashamed for graveyards why	Z4
So thoughtless of our passion he lets play	U
This tragedy	F
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And Gregory Wenner thought	D3
About the day he stood here even as now	I2
And heard a step a voice and looked around	S
Saw Elenor Murray felt her arms again	K
Her kiss upon his cheek and saw her face	T2
As light was beating on it heard her gasp	A2
In ecstasy for going to the war	F4
To which that day she gave her pledge And heard	J
Her words of consecration Heard her say	U
As though she were that passionate Heloise	U
Brought into life again All I have done	Y3
Was done for love of you all I have asked
Was only you not what belonged to you	P3
I did not hope for marriage or for gifts	U
I have not gratified my will desires	U
But yours I sought to gratify I have longed
To be yours wholly I have kept for self	M3
Nothing have lived for you have lived for you	P3
These years when you thought best to crush me out	U4
And now though there's a secret in my heart	R3
Not wholly known to me still I can know it	D4
By seeing you again I think by touching	L2
Your hand again Your life has tortured me	F
Both for itself and since I could not give	H2
Out of my heart enough to make your life	Q2
A way of peace a way of happiness	U
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Then Gregory Wenner thought how she looked down	E4
And said Since I go to the war would God
Look with disfavor on us if you took me	F
In your arms wholly once again My friend
Not with the thought to leave me soon but sleeping	L2
Like mates as birds do making sleep so sweet	X3
Close to each other as God means we should
I mingle love of God with love of you	P3
And in the night time I can pray for you	P3
With you beside me find God closer then	K
Who knows you may take strength from such an hour	A
Then Gregory Wenner lived that night again	K
And the next morning when she rose and shook	A3
As it were night gathered dew upon fresh wings	U
The vital water from her glowing flesh
And shook her hair out laughed and said to him	P2
Courage and peace my friend And how they passed	X2
Among the multitude when he took her hand	W
And said farewell and hastened to this room
To seek for chances in another day	U
And never saw her more	F4
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And all these thoughts	U
Coming on Gregory Wenner swept his soul	N3
Till it seemed like a skiff in mid sea under	A
A sky unreckoning where neither bread
Nor water save salt water were for lips	U
And over him descended a blank light
Of life's futility since now this hour	A
Life dropped the mask and showed him just a skull	V3
And a strange fluttering of the nerves came on him	P2
So that he clutched the window frame lest he	F
Spring from the window to the street below	E2
And he was seized with fear that said to fly	Z4
Go somewhere find some one so to draw out	U4
This madness which was one with him and in him	P2
And which some one in pity must relieve
Something must cure And in this sudden horror	A
Of self this ebbing of the tides of life	Q2
Leaving his shores to visions where he saw	U
Horrible creatures stir amid the slime	S2
Gregory Wenner hurried from the room
And walked the streets to find his thought again	K
Wherewith to judge if he should kill himself	M3
Or look to find a path in life once more	F4
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And Gregory Wenner sitting in his club
Wrote to his brother thus I cannot live	V2
Now that my business is so tangled up
Bury my body by my father's side
Next day the papers headlined Gregory Wenner	A
Loss of a building drives to suicide
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Elenor Murray's death kills Gregory Wenner	A
And Gregory Wenner dying make a riffle	V3
In Mrs Wenner's life reveals to her	A
A secret long concealed

Edgar Lee Masters

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