The Idiot Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE AGHGDIFI IJKJLMAMNOAOPQCQ ARSR CIFIQJNJHTUTDVWW| Two children in a garden | A |
| Shouting for joy | B |
| Were playing dolls and houses | C |
| A girl and boy | B |
| I smiled at a neighbor window | D |
| And watched them play | E |
| Under a budding oak tree | F |
| On a wintry day | E |
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| And then a board half broken | A |
| In the high fence | G |
| Fell over and there entered | H |
| I know not whence | G |
| A jailbird face of yellow | D |
| With a vacant sulk | I |
| His body was a sickly | F |
| Thing of bulk | I |
| - | |
| His open mouth was slavering | I |
| And a green light | J |
| Turned disc like in his eyeballs | K |
| Like a dog's at night | J |
| His teeth were like a giant's | L |
| And far apart | M |
| I saw him reel on the children | A |
| With a stopping heart | M |
| He trampled their dolls and ruined | N |
| The house they made | O |
| He struck to earth the children | A |
| With a dirty spade | O |
| As a tiger growls with an antelope | P |
| After the hunt | Q |
| Over the little faces | C |
| I heard him grunt | Q |
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| I stood at the window frozen | A |
| And short of breath | R |
| And then I saw the idiot | S |
| Was Master Death | R |
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| A bird in the lilac bushes | C |
| Began to sing | I |
| The garden colored before me | F |
| To the kiss of spring | I |
| And the yellow face in a moment | Q |
| Was a mystic white | J |
| The matted hair was softened | N |
| To starry light | J |
| The ragged coat flowed downward | H |
| Into a robe | T |
| He carried a sword and a balance | U |
| And stood on a globe | T |
| I watched him from the window | D |
| Under a spell | V |
| The idiot was the angel | W |
| Azrael | W |
Edgar Lee Masters
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