Voltaire Johnson Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDAECFEGHIAJK| Why did you bruise me with your rough places | A |
| If you did not want me to tell you about them | B |
| And stifle me with your stupidities | A |
| If you did not want me to expose them | B |
| And nail me with the nails of cruelty | C |
| If you did not want me to pluck the nails forth | D |
| And fling them in your faces | A |
| And starve me because I refused to obey you | E |
| If you did not want me to undermine your tyranny | C |
| I might have been as soul serene | F |
| As William Wordsworth except for you | E |
| But what a coward you are Spoon River | G |
| When you drove me to stand in a magic circle | H |
| By the sword of Truth described | I |
| And then to whine and curse your burns | A |
| And curse my power who stood and laughed | J |
| Amid ironical lightning | K |
Edgar Lee Masters
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