Jane Fisher Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNMOPQAR STD UVRUAWXYZA2B2C2ID2DC E2F2G2H2I2J2K2 L2M2MN2O2P2Q2R2S2JT2 JU2V2BW2X2Y2Z2IA3CGB 3F2C3D3E3IMBF3UG3H3I 3J3K3L3M3G N3O3P3Q3MUR3S3P2T3RU 3F2BV3W3BP2MDIM2X3 ZKMY3R2UZ3A2A4P2NA4B B4UUMMUC4P2D4MCE4F4 G4H4UUI3I4IJ4SK4I4ML 4MMUA M3Q2M4N4O4P4LBP2Q4J3 I4CPR4S4Z MCEUC UMNF4H4MH4T4DBN MU4V4W4T3X4G2Jane Fisher says to Susan Hamilton | A |
That Coroner has no excuse to bring | B |
You me before him There are many too | C |
Who could throw light on Elenor Murray's life | D |
Besides the witnesses he calls to tell | E |
The cause of death could he call us and hear | F |
About the traits we know he should have us | G |
What do we know of Elenor Murray's death | H |
Why not a thing unless her death began | I |
With Simeon Strong and Gregory Wenner then | J |
I could say something for she told me much | K |
About her plan to marry Simeon Strong | L |
And could have done so but for Gregory Wenner | M |
Whose fault of life combined with fault of hers | N |
To break the faith of Simeon Strong in her | M |
And so what have we Gregory Wenner's love | O |
Poisons the love of Simeon Strong from that | P |
Poor Elenor Murray falls into decline | Q |
From that re acts to nursing and religion | A |
Which leads her to the war and from the war | R |
Some other causes come I know not what | S |
I wish I knew And Elenor Murray dies | T |
Is killed or has a normal end of life | D |
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But Susan Elenor Murray feasted richly | U |
While life was with her spite of all the pain | V |
If you could choose be Elenor Murray or | R |
Our schoolmate Mary Marsh which would you be | U |
Elenor Murray had imagination | A |
And courage to sustain it Mary Marsh | W |
Had no imagination was afraid | X |
Could not envision life in Europe married | Y |
And living there in England threw her chance | Z |
Away to live in England was content | A2 |
And otherwise not happy but to lift | B2 |
Her habitation from the west of town | C2 |
And settle on the south side wed a man | I |
Whose steadiness and business sense made sure | D2 |
A prosperous uniformity of life | D |
Life does not enter at your door and seek you | C |
And pour her gifts into your lap She drops | E2 |
The chances and the riches here and there | F2 |
They find them who fly forth as faring birds | G2 |
Know northern marshes rice fields in the south | H2 |
While the dull turtle waddles in his mud | I2 |
The bird is slain perhaps the turtle lives | J2 |
But which has known the thrills | K2 |
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Well on a time | L2 |
Elenor Murray Janet Stearns myself | M2 |
Thought we would see Seattle and Vancouver | M |
We had saved money teaching school that year | N2 |
The plan was Elenor Murray's So we sailed | O2 |
To 'Frisco from Los Angeles saw 'Frisco | P2 |
By daylight but to see the town by night | Q2 |
Was Elenor Murray's wish and up to now | R2 |
We had no men had found none Elenor said | S2 |
Let's go to Palo Alto find some men | J |
We landed in a blinding sun and walked | T2 |
About the desolate campus but no men | J |
And Janet and myself were tired and hot | U2 |
But Elenor who never knew fatigue | V2 |
Went searching here and there and left us sitting | B |
Under a palm tree waiting Hours went by | W2 |
Two hours I think when she came down the walk | X2 |
A man on either side She brought them up | Y2 |
And introduced them They were gay and young | Z2 |
Students with money Then the fun began | I |
We wished to see the place must hurry back | A3 |
To keep engagements in the city whew | C |
How Elenor Murray baited hooks for us | G |
With words about the city and our plans | B3 |
What fun we three had had already there | F2 |
Until at last these fellows begged to come | C3 |
Return with us to 'Frisco be allowed | D3 |
To join our party Could we manage it | E3 |
Asked Elenor Murray do you think we can | I |
We fell into the play and talked it over | M |
Considered this and that resolved the thing | B |
And said at last to come and come they did | F3 |
Well such a time in 'Frisco For you see | U |
Our money had been figured down to cents | G3 |
For what we planned to do These fellows helped | H3 |
We scarcely had seen 'Frisco but for them | I3 |
They bought our dinners paid our way about | J3 |
Through China Town and so forth but we kept | K3 |
Our staterooms on the boat slept on the boat | L3 |
And after three days' feasting sailed away | M3 |
With bouquets for each one of us | G |
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But this girl | N3 |
Could never get enough must on and on | O3 |
See more have more sensations never tired | P3 |
And when we saw Vancouver then the dream | Q3 |
Of going to Alaska entered her | M |
I had no money Janet had no money | U |
To help her out and Elenor was short | R3 |
We begged her not to try it what a will | S3 |
She set her jaw and said she meant to go | P2 |
And when we missed her for a day behold | T3 |
We find her she's a cashier in a store | R |
And earning money there to take the trip | U3 |
Our boat was going back we left her there | F2 |
I see her next when school commences ruling | B |
Her room of pupils at Los Angeles | V3 |
The summer after this she wandered east | W3 |
Was now engaged to Simeon Strong but writing | B |
To Gregory Wenner saw him in Chicago | P2 |
She traveled to New York he followed her | M |
She was a girl who had to live her life | D |
Could not live through another found no man | I |
Whose life sufficed for hers must live herself | M2 |
Be individual | X3 |
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And en route for France | Z |
She wrote me from New York was seeing much | K |
Of Margery an aunt I never knew her | M |
But sensed an evil in her and a mind | Y3 |
That used the will of Elenor Murray how | R2 |
Or why I knew not But she wrote to me | U |
This Margery had brought her lawyer in | Z3 |
There in New York to draw a document | A2 |
And put some letters in a safety box | A4 |
Whose letters Gregory Wenner's I don't know | P2 |
She told me much of secrets but of letters | N |
That needed for their preciousness a box | A4 |
A lawyer to arrange the matter nothing | B |
For if there was another man she felt | B4 |
Too shamed no doubt to tell me This is he | U |
The love I sought the great reality | U |
When she had said as much of Gregory Wenner | M |
But now a deeper matter with this letter | M |
She sent a formal writing giving me | U |
Charge of these letters if she died to give | C4 |
The letters to the writer I'm to know | P2 |
The identity of the writer so she planned | D4 |
When I obtain them How about this lawyer | M |
And Margery the aunt What shall I do | C |
Write to this lawyer what my duty is | E4 |
Appointed me of her go to New York | F4 |
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I must do something for this lawyer has | G4 |
As I believe no knowledge of my place | H4 |
In this affair Who has the box's key | U |
This lawyer or the aunt I have no key | U |
And if they have the key or one of them | I3 |
And enter take the letters look our friend | I4 |
Gets stains upon her memory or the man | I |
Who wrote the letters finds embarrassment | J4 |
Somehow I think these letters hold a secret | S |
The deepest of her life and cruelest | K4 |
And figured in her death My dearest friend | I4 |
What if they brought me to the coroner | M |
If I should get these letters and they learned | L4 |
I had them this relation to our Elenor | M |
Yet how can I neglect to write this lawyer | M |
And tell him Elenor Murray gave to me | U |
This power of disposition | A |
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Come what may | M3 |
I must write to this lawyer Here I write | Q2 |
To get the letters and obey the wish | M4 |
Of our dear friend Our friend who never could | N4 |
Carry her ventures to success but always | O4 |
Just at the prosperous moment wrecked her hope | P4 |
She really wished to marry Simeon Strong | L |
Then why imperil such a wish by keeping | B |
This Gregory Wenner friendship living go | P2 |
About with Gregory Wenner fill the heart | Q4 |
Of Simeon Strong with doubt | J3 |
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Oh well my friend | I4 |
We wonder at each other I at you | C |
And you at me for doing this or that | P |
And yet I think no man or woman acts | R4 |
Without a certain logic in the act | S4 |
Of nature or of circumstance | Z |
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Look here | M |
This letter to the lawyer Will it do | C |
I think so If it brings the letters well | E |
If not I'll get them somehow it must be | U |
I loved her faults and all and so did you | C |
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So while Jane Fisher pondered on her duty | U |
But didn't write the letter to the lawyer | M |
Who had the charge of Elenor Murray's letters | N |
The lawyer Henry Baker in New York | F4 |
Finds great perplexity Sometimes a case | H4 |
Walks in a lawyer's office makes his future | M |
Or wrecks his health or brings him face to face | H4 |
With some one rising from the mass of things | T4 |
Faces and circumstance that ends his life | D |
So Henry Baker took such chances taking | B |
The custody of these letters | N |
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James Rex Hunter | M |
Is partner of this Baker sees at last | U4 |
Merival and tells him how it was | V4 |
With Baker at the last he died because | W4 |
Of Elenor Murray's letters Hunter told | T3 |
The coroner at the Waldorf Dramatized | X4 |
His talk with Lawyer Baker in these words | G2 |
Edgar Lee Masters
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