Henry Phipps Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFCGHIJKLMNKOKPQ RSTFUDVWXY| I was the Sunday school superintendent | A |
| The dummy president of the wagon works | B |
| And the canning factory | C |
| Acting for Thomas Rhodes and the banking clique | D |
| My son the cashier of the bank | E |
| Wedded to Rhodes' daughter | F |
| My week days spent in making money | C |
| My Sundays at church and in prayer | G |
| In everything a cog in the wheel of things as they are | H |
| Of money master and man made white | I |
| With the paint of the Christian creed | J |
| And then | K |
| The bank collapsed I stood and looked at the wrecked machine | L |
| The wheels with blow holes stopped with putty and painted | M |
| The rotten bolts the broken rods | N |
| And only the hopper for souls fit to be used again | K |
| In a new devourer of life when newspapers judges and money magicians | O |
| Build over again | K |
| I was stripped to the bone but I lay in the Rock of Ages | P |
| Seeing now through the game no longer a dupe | Q |
| And knowing the upright shall dwell in the land | R |
| But the years of the wicked shall be shortened | S |
| Then suddenly Dr Meyers discovered | T |
| A cancer in my liver | F |
| I was not after all the particular care of God | U |
| Why even thus standing on a peak | D |
| Above the mists through which I had climbed | V |
| And ready for larger life in the world | W |
| Eternal forces | X |
| Moved me on with a push | Y |
Edgar Lee Masters
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