Harmon Whitney Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOONNNN PNNQRN| Out of the lights and roar of cities | A |
| Drifting down like a spark in Spoon River | B |
| Burnt out with the fire of drink and broken | C |
| The paramour of a woman I took in self contempt | D |
| But to hide a wounded pride as well | E |
| To be judged and loathed by a village of little minds | F |
| I gifted with tongues and wisdom | G |
| Sunk here to the dust of the justice court | H |
| A picker of rags in the rubbage of spites and wrongs | I |
| I whom fortune smiled on I in a village | J |
| Spouting to gaping yokels pages of verse | K |
| Out of the lore of golden years | L |
| Or raising a laugh with a flash of filthy wit | M |
| When they bought the drinks to kindle my dying mind | N |
| To be judged by you | O |
| The soul of me hidden from you | O |
| With its wound gangrened | N |
| By love for a wife who made the wound | N |
| With her cold white bosom treasonous pure and hard | N |
| Relentless to the last when the touch of her hand | N |
| At any time might have cured me of the typhus | P |
| Caught in the jungle of life where many are lost | N |
| And only to think that my soul could not re act | N |
| Like Byron's did in song in something noble | Q |
| But turned on itself like a tortured snake | R |
| Judge me this way O world | N |
Edgar Lee Masters
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