Sersmith The Dentist Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEDFGHIJHHKLMNOPQ DDDRS| Do you think that odes and sermons | A |
| And the ringing of church bells | B |
| And the blood of old men and young men | C |
| Martyred for the truth they saw | D |
| With eyes made bright by faith in God | E |
| Accomplished the world's great reformations | D |
| Do you think that the Battle Hymn of the Republic | F |
| Would have been heard if the chattel slave | G |
| Had crowned the dominant dollar | H |
| In spite of Whitney's cotton gin | I |
| And steam and rolling mills and iron | J |
| And telegraphs and white free labor | H |
| Do you think that Daisy Fraser | H |
| Had been put out and driven out | K |
| If the canning works had never needed | L |
| Her little house and lot | M |
| Or do you think the poker room | N |
| Of Johnnie Taylor and Burchard's bar | O |
| Had been closed up if the money lost | P |
| And spent for beer had not been turned | Q |
| By closing them to Thomas Rhodes | D |
| For larger sales of shoes and blankets | D |
| And children's cloaks and gold oak cradles | D |
| Why a moral truth is a hollow tooth | R |
| Which must be propped with gold | S |
Edgar Lee Masters
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