Robert Davidson Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFEGHCIJFJJKLMJ| I grew spiritually fat living off the souls of men | A |
| If I saw a soul that was strong | B |
| I wounded its pride and devoured its strength | C |
| The shelters of friendship knew my cunning | D |
| For where I could steal a friend I did so | E |
| And wherever I could enlarge my power | F |
| By undermining ambition I did so | E |
| Thus to make smooth my own | G |
| And to triumph over other souls | H |
| Just to assert and prove my superior strength | C |
| Was with me a delight | I |
| The keen exhilaration of soul gymnastics | J |
| Devouring souls I should have lived forever | F |
| But their undigested remains bred in me a deadly nephritis | J |
| With fear restlessness sinking spirits | J |
| Hatred suspicion vision disturbed | K |
| I collapsed at last with a shriek | L |
| Remember the acorn | M |
| It does not devour other acorns | J |
Edgar Lee Masters
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