Oaks Tutt Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST UEVWWX| My mother was for woman's rights | A |
| And my father was the rich miller at London Mills | B |
| I dreamed of the wrongs of the world and wanted to right them | C |
| When my father died I set out to see peoples and countries | D |
| In order to learn how to reform the world | E |
| I traveled through many lands | F |
| I saw the ruins of Rome | G |
| And the ruins of Athens | H |
| And the ruins of Thebes | I |
| And I sat by moonlight amid the necropolis of Memphis | J |
| There I was caught up by wings of flame | K |
| And a voice from heaven said to me | L |
| Injustice Untruth destroyed them Go forth | M |
| Preach Justice Preach Truth | N |
| And I hastened back to Spoon River | O |
| To say farewell to my mother before beginning my work | P |
| They all saw a strange light in my eye | Q |
| And by and by when I talked they discovered | R |
| What had come in my mind | S |
| Then Jonathan Swift Somers challenged me to debate | T |
| The subject I taking the negative | U |
| Pontius Pilate the Greatest Philosopher of the World | E |
| And he won the debate by saying at last | V |
| Before you reform the world Mr Tutt | W |
| Please answer the question of Pontius Pilate | W |
| 'What is Truth ' | X |
Edgar Lee Masters
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