Jane Fisher Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Jane Fisher says to Susan HamiltonA
That Coroner has no excuse to bringB
You me before him There are many tooC
Who could throw light on Elenor Murray's lifeD
Besides the witnesses he calls to tellE
The cause of death could he call us and hearF
About the traits we know he should have usG
What do we know of Elenor Murray's deathH
Why not a thing unless her death beganI
With Simeon Strong and Gregory Wenner thenJ
I could say something for she told me muchK
About her plan to marry Simeon StrongL
And could have done so but for Gregory WennerM
Whose fault of life combined with fault of hersN
To break the faith of Simeon Strong in herM
And so what have we Gregory Wenner's loveO
Poisons the love of Simeon Strong from thatP
Poor Elenor Murray falls into declineQ
From that re acts to nursing and religionA
Which leads her to the war and from the warR
Some other causes come I know not whatS
I wish I knew And Elenor Murray diesT
Is killed or has a normal end of lifeD
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But Susan Elenor Murray feasted richlyU
While life was with her spite of all the painV
If you could choose be Elenor Murray orR
Our schoolmate Mary Marsh which would you beU
Elenor Murray had imaginationA
And courage to sustain it Mary MarshW
Had no imagination was afraidX
Could not envision life in Europe marriedY
And living there in England threw her chanceZ
Away to live in England was contentA2
And otherwise not happy but to liftB2
Her habitation from the west of townC2
And settle on the south side wed a manI
Whose steadiness and business sense made sureD2
A prosperous uniformity of lifeD
Life does not enter at your door and seek youC
And pour her gifts into your lap She dropsE2
The chances and the riches here and thereF2
They find them who fly forth as faring birdsG2
Know northern marshes rice fields in the southH2
While the dull turtle waddles in his mudI2
The bird is slain perhaps the turtle livesJ2
But which has known the thrillsK2
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Well on a timeL2
Elenor Murray Janet Stearns myselfM2
Thought we would see Seattle and VancouverM
We had saved money teaching school that yearN2
The plan was Elenor Murray's So we sailedO2
To 'Frisco from Los Angeles saw 'FriscoP2
By daylight but to see the town by nightQ2
Was Elenor Murray's wish and up to nowR2
We had no men had found none Elenor saidS2
Let's go to Palo Alto find some menJ
We landed in a blinding sun and walkedT2
About the desolate campus but no menJ
And Janet and myself were tired and hotU2
But Elenor who never knew fatigueV2
Went searching here and there and left us sittingB
Under a palm tree waiting Hours went byW2
Two hours I think when she came down the walkX2
A man on either side She brought them upY2
And introduced them They were gay and youngZ2
Students with money Then the fun beganI
We wished to see the place must hurry backA3
To keep engagements in the city whewC
How Elenor Murray baited hooks for usG
With words about the city and our plansB3
What fun we three had had already thereF2
Until at last these fellows begged to comeC3
Return with us to 'Frisco be allowedD3
To join our party Could we manage itE3
Asked Elenor Murray do you think we canI
We fell into the play and talked it overM
Considered this and that resolved the thingB
And said at last to come and come they didF3
Well such a time in 'Frisco For you seeU
Our money had been figured down to centsG3
For what we planned to do These fellows helpedH3
We scarcely had seen 'Frisco but for themI3
They bought our dinners paid our way aboutJ3
Through China Town and so forth but we keptK3
Our staterooms on the boat slept on the boatL3
And after three days' feasting sailed awayM3
With bouquets for each one of usG
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But this girlN3
Could never get enough must on and onO3
See more have more sensations never tiredP3
And when we saw Vancouver then the dreamQ3
Of going to Alaska entered herM
I had no money Janet had no moneyU
To help her out and Elenor was shortR3
We begged her not to try it what a willS3
She set her jaw and said she meant to goP2
And when we missed her for a day beholdT3
We find her she's a cashier in a storeR
And earning money there to take the tripU3
Our boat was going back we left her thereF2
I see her next when school commences rulingB
Her room of pupils at Los AngelesV3
The summer after this she wandered eastW3
Was now engaged to Simeon Strong but writingB
To Gregory Wenner saw him in ChicagoP2
She traveled to New York he followed herM
She was a girl who had to live her lifeD
Could not live through another found no manI
Whose life sufficed for hers must live herselfM2
Be individualX3
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And en route for FranceZ
She wrote me from New York was seeing muchK
Of Margery an aunt I never knew herM
But sensed an evil in her and a mindY3
That used the will of Elenor Murray howR2
Or why I knew not But she wrote to meU
This Margery had brought her lawyer inZ3
There in New York to draw a documentA2
And put some letters in a safety boxA4
Whose letters Gregory Wenner's I don't knowP2
She told me much of secrets but of lettersN
That needed for their preciousness a boxA4
A lawyer to arrange the matter nothingB
For if there was another man she feltB4
Too shamed no doubt to tell me This is heU
The love I sought the great realityU
When she had said as much of Gregory WennerM
But now a deeper matter with this letterM
She sent a formal writing giving meU
Charge of these letters if she died to giveC4
The letters to the writer I'm to knowP2
The identity of the writer so she plannedD4
When I obtain them How about this lawyerM
And Margery the aunt What shall I doC
Write to this lawyer what my duty isE4
Appointed me of her go to New YorkF4
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I must do something for this lawyer hasG4
As I believe no knowledge of my placeH4
In this affair Who has the box's keyU
This lawyer or the aunt I have no keyU
And if they have the key or one of themI3
And enter take the letters look our friendI4
Gets stains upon her memory or the manI
Who wrote the letters finds embarrassmentJ4
Somehow I think these letters hold a secretS
The deepest of her life and cruelestK4
And figured in her death My dearest friendI4
What if they brought me to the coronerM
If I should get these letters and they learnedL4
I had them this relation to our ElenorM
Yet how can I neglect to write this lawyerM
And tell him Elenor Murray gave to meU
This power of dispositionA
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Come what mayM3
I must write to this lawyer Here I writeQ2
To get the letters and obey the wishM4
Of our dear friend Our friend who never couldN4
Carry her ventures to success but alwaysO4
Just at the prosperous moment wrecked her hopeP4
She really wished to marry Simeon StrongL
Then why imperil such a wish by keepingB
This Gregory Wenner friendship living goP2
About with Gregory Wenner fill the heartQ4
Of Simeon Strong with doubtJ3
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Oh well my friendI4
We wonder at each other I at youC
And you at me for doing this or thatP
And yet I think no man or woman actsR4
Without a certain logic in the actS4
Of nature or of circumstanceZ
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Look hereM
This letter to the lawyer Will it doC
I think so If it brings the letters wellE
If not I'll get them somehow it must beU
I loved her faults and all and so did youC
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So while Jane Fisher pondered on her dutyU
But didn't write the letter to the lawyerM
Who had the charge of Elenor Murray's lettersN
The lawyer Henry Baker in New YorkF4
Finds great perplexity Sometimes a caseH4
Walks in a lawyer's office makes his futureM
Or wrecks his health or brings him face to faceH4
With some one rising from the mass of thingsT4
Faces and circumstance that ends his lifeD
So Henry Baker took such chances takingB
The custody of these lettersN
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James Rex HunterM
Is partner of this Baker sees at lastU4
Merival and tells him how it wasV4
With Baker at the last he died becauseW4
Of Elenor Murray's letters Hunter toldT3
The coroner at the Waldorf DramatizedX4
His talk with Lawyer Baker in these wordsG2

Edgar Lee Masters



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