Mrs. Merritt Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEFGHAIFJKLBM| Silent before the jury | A |
| Returning no word to the judge when he asked me | A |
| If I had aught to say against the sentence | B |
| Only shaking my head | C |
| What could I say to people who thought | D |
| That a woman of thirty five was at fault | E |
| When her lover of nineteen killed her husband | F |
| Even though she had said to him over and over | G |
| Go away Elmer go far away | H |
| I have maddened your brain with the gift of my body | A |
| You will do some terrible thing | I |
| And just as I feared he killed my husband | F |
| With which I had nothing to do before God | J |
| Silent for thirty years in prison | K |
| And the iron gates of Joliet | L |
| Swung as the gray and silent trusties | B |
| Carried me out in a coffin | M |
Edgar Lee Masters
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