Roscoe Purkapile Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDAEFGHIJKLMKNKOP Q| She loved me Oh how she loved me | A |
| I never had a chance to escape | B |
| From the day she first saw me | A |
| But then after we were married I thought | C |
| She might prove her mortality and let me out | D |
| Or she might divorce me | A |
| But few die none resign | E |
| Then I ran away and was gone a year on a lark | F |
| But she never complained She said all would be well | G |
| That I would return And I did return | H |
| I told her that while taking a row in a boat | I |
| I had been captured near Van Buren Street | J |
| By pirates on Lake Michigan | K |
| And kept in chains so I could not write her | L |
| She cried and kissed me and said it was cruel | M |
| Outrageous inhuman | K |
| I then concluded our marriage | N |
| Was a divine dispensation | K |
| And could not be dissolved | O |
| Except by death | P |
| I was right | Q |
Edgar Lee Masters
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