Seth Compton Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGAHIAJBKAKLGM| When I died the circulating library | A |
| Which I built up for Spoon River | B |
| And managed for the good of inquiring minds | C |
| Was sold at auction on the public square | D |
| As if to destroy the last vestige | E |
| Of my memory and influence | F |
| For those of you who could not see the virtue | G |
| Of knowing Volney's Ruins as well as Butler's Analogy | A |
| And Faust as well as Evangeline | H |
| Were really the power in the village | I |
| And often you asked me | A |
| What is the use of knowing the evil in the world | J |
| I am out of your way now Spoon River | B |
| Choose your own good and call it good | K |
| For I could never make you see | A |
| That no one knows what is good | K |
| Who knows not what is evil | L |
| And no one knows what is true | G |
| Who knows not what is false | M |
Edgar Lee Masters
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