John Hancock Otis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEFGHIJKDDEDLDD| As to democracy fellow citizens | A |
| Are you not prepared to admit | B |
| That I who inherited riches and was to the manner born | C |
| Was second to none in Spoon River | D |
| In my devotion to the cause of Liberty | E |
| While my contemporary Anthony Findlay | E |
| Born in a shanty and beginning life | F |
| As a water carrier to the section hands | G |
| Then becoming a section hand when he was grown | H |
| Afterwards foreman of the gang until he rose | I |
| To the superintendency of the railroad | J |
| Living in Chicago | K |
| Was a veritable slave driver | D |
| Grinding the faces of labor | D |
| And a bitter enemy of democracy | E |
| And I say to you Spoon River | D |
| And to you O republic | L |
| Beware of the man who rises to power | D |
| From one suspender | D |
Edgar Lee Masters
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