Searcy Foote Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGBHIJKLMNONPQR STUONNON| I wanted to go away to college | A |
| But rich Aunt Persis wouldn't help me | B |
| So I made gardens and raked the lawns | C |
| And bought John Alden's books with my earnings | D |
| And toiled for the very means of life | E |
| I wanted to marry Delia Prickett | F |
| But how could I do it with what I earned | G |
| And there was Aunt Persis more than seventy | B |
| Who sat in a wheel chair half alive | H |
| With her throat so paralyzed when she swallowed | I |
| The soup ran out of her mouth like a duck | J |
| A gourmand yet investing her income | K |
| In mortgages fretting all the time | L |
| About her notes and rents and papers | M |
| That day I was sawing wood for her | N |
| And reading Proudhon in between | O |
| I went in the house for a drink of water | N |
| And there she sat asleep in her chair | P |
| And Proudhon lying on the table | Q |
| And a bottle of chloroform on the book | R |
| She used sometimes for an aching tooth | S |
| I poured the chloroform on a handkerchief | T |
| And held it to her nose till she died | U |
| Oh Delia Delia you and Proudhon | O |
| Steadied my hand and the coroner | N |
| Said she died of heart failure | N |
| I married Delia and got the money | O |
| A joke on you Spoon River | N |
Edgar Lee Masters
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