Jefferson Howard Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLGMILNOGL PQR| My valiant fight For I call it valiant | A |
| With my father's beliefs from old Virginia | B |
| Hating slavery but no less war | C |
| I full of spirit audacity courage | D |
| Thrown into life here in Spoon River | E |
| With its dominant forces drawn from New England | F |
| Republicans Calvinists merchants bankers | G |
| Hating me yet fearing my arm | H |
| With wife and children heavy to carry | I |
| Yet fruits of my very zest of life | J |
| Stealing odd pleasures that cost me prestige | K |
| And reaping evils I had not sown | L |
| Foe of the church with its charnel dankness | G |
| Friend of the human touch of the tavern | M |
| Tangled with fates all alien to me | I |
| Deserted by hands I called my own | L |
| Then just as I felt my giant strength | N |
| Short of breath behold my children | O |
| Had wound their lives in stranger gardens | G |
| And I stood alone as I started alone | L |
| My valiant life I died on my feet | P |
| Facing the silence facing the prospect | Q |
| That no one would know of the fight I made | R |
Edgar Lee Masters
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