John Horace Burleson Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFEGHIJKLLCMN| I won the prize essay at school | A |
| Here in the village | B |
| And published a novel before I was twenty five | C |
| I went to the city for themes and to enrich my art | D |
| There married the banker's daughter | E |
| And later became president of the bank | F |
| Always looking forward to some leisure | E |
| To write an epic novel of the war | G |
| Meanwhile friend of the great and lover of letters | H |
| And host to Matthew Arnold and to Emerson | I |
| An after dinner speaker writing essays | J |
| For local clubs At last brought here | K |
| My boyhood home you know | L |
| Not even a little tablet in Chicago | L |
| To keep my name alive | C |
| How great it is to write the single line | M |
| Roll on thou deep and dark blue Ocean roll | N |
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