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Mrs. Gregory Wenner Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Gregory Wenner's wife was by the sea	A
When Gregory Wenner killed himself half sick	B
And half malingering and otiose	A
She wept sent for a doctor to be braced	C
Induced a friend to travel with her west	D
To bury Gregory Wenner did not know	E
That Gregory Wenner was in money straits	A
Until she read the paper or had lost	F
His building in the loop The man had kept	G
His worries from her ailing ears was glad	H
To keep her traveling or taking cures	A
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She came and buried Gregory Wenner found	I
His fortune just a shell the building lost	F
A little money in the bank a store	J
Far out on Lake Street forty worthless acres	A
In northern Indiana twenty lots	A
In some Montana village Here she was	A
A widow penniless an invalid	K
The crude reality of things awoke	L
A strength she did not dream was hers And then	M
She went to Gregory Wenner's barren office	A
To collect the things he had get in his safe	N
For papers and effects	A
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She had to pay	O
An expert to reveal the combination	P
And throw the bolts And there she sat a day	O
And emptied pigeon holes and searched and read	Q
And in one pigeon hole she found a box	A
And in the box a lock of hair wrapped up	R
In tissue paper fragrant powder lying	S
Around the paper in the box a card	T
With woman's writing on it just the words	A
For my beloved but no name or date	U
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Who was this woman mused the widow there	V
She did not know the name She did not know	E
Her eyes had seen this Elenor Murray once	A
When Elenor Murray came with Gregory Wenner	W
To dinner at his home to face the wife	X
For Elenor Murray in a mood of strength	Y
After her confirmation and communion	P
Had said to Gregory Wenner Now the end	Z
Has come to this our love I think it best	D
If she should ever learn I am the woman	P
Who in New York spent summer days with you	A2
And later in Chicago in that summer	W
She will remember what my eyes will show	E
When we stand face to face and I give proof	B2
That I am changed repentant	C2
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For the wife	X
Had listened to a friend who came to tell	D2
She saw this Gregory Wenner in New York	E2
From day to day in gardens and cafes	A
And by the sea romancing with a girl	F2
And later Mrs Wenner found a book	G2
Which Gregory Wenner cherished with the words	A
Beloved and the date And now she knew	A2
The hand that wrote the card here in this box	A
The hand that wrote the inscription in the book	G2
Were one but still she did not know the woman	P
No doubt the woman of that summer's flame	H2
Whom Gregory Wenner promised not to see	A
When she brought out the book and told him all	I2
She learned of his philandering in New York	E2
And Elenor Murray's body was decaying	S
In darkness under earth there at LeRoy	J2
While Mrs Wenner read and did not know	E
The hand that wrote the card lay blue and green	K2
Half hidden in the foldings of the shroud	L2
And all that country stirred for Elenor Murray	A
Of which the widow absent in the east	M2
Had never heard	N2
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And Mrs Wenner found	I
Beside the box and lock of hair three letters	A
And sat and read them Through her eyes and brain	O2
This meaning and this sound of blood and soul	P2
Like an old record with a diamond needle	Q2
Passed music like	R2
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The days go swiftly by	S2
With study and with work I am too tired	N2
At night to think I read anatomy	A
Materia medica and other things	A
And do the work an undergraduate	T2
Is called upon to do And every week	U2
I spend three afternoons with the nuns and sew	E
And care for children of the poor whose mothers	A
Are earning bread away I go to church	V2
And talk with Mother Janet And I pray	O
At morning and at night for you and ask	W2
For strength to live without you and for light	X2
To understand why love of you is mine	Y2
And why you are not mine and whether God	Z2
Will give you to me some day if I prove	A3
My womanhood is worthy of you dear	B3
And sometimes when our days of bliss come back	C3
And flood me with their warmth and blinding light	X2
I take my little crucifix and kiss it	D3
And plunge in work to take me out of self	E3
Some service to another So it is	A
This sewing and this caring for the children	P
Stills memory and gives me strength to live	F3
And pass the days go on I shall not draw	G3
Upon your thought with letters still I ask	W2
Your thought of me sometimes Would it be much	H3
If once a year you sent me a bouquet	O
To prove to me that you remember sweet	I3
Still cherish me a little give me faith	J3
That in this riddle world there is a hand	K3
Which spite of separation thinks and touches	A
Blossoms that I touch afterward Dear heart	L3
I have starved out and killed that reckless mood	M3
Which would have taken you and run away	O
Oh if you knew that this means killing too	A2
The child I want our child You have a cross	A
No less than I beloved even if love	N3
Of me has passed and eased the agony	A
I thought you knew your cross is heavy dear	B3
Bound but not wedded to her never to know	E
The life of marriage with her Yet be brave	O3
Be noble dear be always what God made you	A2
A great heart patient gentle sacrificing	S
Bring comfort to her tedious days forbear	B3
When she is petulant for if you do	A2
I know God will reward you give you peace	A
I pray for strength for you that never again	M
May you distress her as you did I did	P3
When she found there was someone Lest she know	E
Destroy this letter all I ever write	X2
So that her mind may never fix itself	E3
Upon a definite person on myself	E3
But still remaining vague may better pass	A
To lighter shadows nothingness at last	Q3
I try to think I sinned have so confessed	D
To get forgiveness at my first communion	P
And yet a vestige of a thought in me	A
Will not submit confess the sin Well dear	B3
You can awake at midnight at the pause	A
Of duty in the day merry or sad	H
Light hearted or discouraged if you chance	A
To think of me remember I send prayers	A
To God for you each day oh may His light	X2
Shine on your face	A
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So Widow Wenner read	Q
And wondered of the writer since no name	H2
Was signed and wept a little dried her eyes	A
And flushed with anger said adulteress	A
Adulteress who played the game of pity	A
And wove about my husband's heart the spell	D2
Of masculine sympathy for a sorrowing woman	P
A trick as old as Eden And who knows	A
But all the money went here in the end	Z
For if a woman plunges from her aim	H2
To piety devotion such as this	A
She will plunge back to sin unstable heart	L3
That swings from self denial to indulgence	A
And spends itself in both	R3
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Then Widow Wenner	B3
Took up the second letter	B3
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I have signed	S3
To go to France to day I wrote you once	A
I planned to take the veil become a nun	P
But now the war has changed my thought I see	A
In service for my country fuller life	X
More useful sacrifice and greater work	T3
Than ever I could have being a nun	P
The cause is so momentous Think my dear	B3
This woman who still thinks of you will be	A
A factor in this war for liberty	A
A soldier serving soldiers giving strength	Y
Health hope and spirit to the soldier boys	A
Who fall must be restored to fight again	M
I've thrown my soul in this am all aflame	H2
You should have seen me when I took the oath	R3
And raised my hand and pledged my word to serve	U3
Support the law I want to think of you	A2
As proud of me for doing this be proud	L2
Be grateful too that I have strength and will	V3
To give myself to this And if it chance	A
As almost I am hoping that the work	T3
Should break me sweep me under think of me	A
As one who died for country as I shall	W3
As truly as the soldiers slain in battle	Q2
I leave to morrow will be at a camp	X3
Some weeks before I sail I telephoned you	A2
This morning twice they said you would return	Y3
By two o'clock at least I write instead	Q
But I shall come to see you if I can	Z3
Sometime this afternoon and if I don't	A4
This letter then must answer Peace be with you	A2
To day I'm very happy Write to me	A
Or if you do not think it best all right	X2
I'll understand Before I sail I'll send	Z
A message to you for the time farewell	D2
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Then Widow Wenner read the telegram	B4
The third and last communication Sail	C4
To day to morrow very soon I know	E
My memories of you are happy ones	A
A fond adieu This telegram was signed	S3
By Elenor Murray Widow Wenner knew	A2
The name at last sat petrified to think	D4
This was the girl who brazened through the dinner	B3
Some years ago when Gregory Wenner brought	E4
This woman to his home the shameless trull	Q2
Said Mrs Wenner harlot impudent jade	F4
To think my husband is dead would she were dead	Q
I could be happy if I knew a bomb	G4
Or vile disease had got her Then she looked	H4
In other pigeon holes and found in one	P
A photograph of Elenor Murray knew	A2
The face that looked across the dinner table	Q2
And in the pigeon hole she found some verses	A
Clipped from a magazine and tucked away	O
The letters verses telegram in her bag	I4
Closed up the safe and left	J4
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Next day at breakfast	K4
She scanned the morning Times her eyes were wide	L4
For reading of the Elenor Murray inquest	D
Well God is just she murmured God is just	K4
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All this was learned of Gregory Wenner Even	M4
If Gregory Wenner killed the girl the man	Z3
Was dead now Could he kill her and return	Y3
And kill himself The coroner had gone	N4
The jury too to view the spot where lay	O
Elenor Murray's body It was clear	B3
A man had walked here Was it Gregory Wenner	B3
The hunter who came up and found the body	A
This hunter was a harmless honest soul	P2
Could not have killed her passed the grill of questions	A
From David Borrow skilled examiner	B3
The coroner the jurors But meantime	O4
If Gregory Wenner killed this Elenor Murray	A
How did he do it Dr Trace has made	F4
His autopsy and comes and makes report	P4
To the coroner and the jury in these words	A