Zilpha Marsh Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFAGHGGIGGGJGKGL MNII| At four o'clock in late October | A |
| I sat alone in the country school house | B |
| Back from the road 'mid stricken fields | C |
| And an eddy of wind blew leaves on the pane | D |
| And crooned in the flue of the cannon stove | E |
| With its open door blurring the shadows | F |
| With the spectral glow of a dying fire | A |
| In an idle mood I was running the planchette | G |
| All at once my wrist grew limp | H |
| And my hand moved rapidly over the board | G |
| Till the name of Charles Guiteau was spelled | G |
| Who threatened to materialize before me | I |
| I rose and fled from the room bare headed | G |
| Into the dusk afraid of my gift | G |
| And after that the spirits swarmed | G |
| Chaucer C sar Poe and Marlowe | J |
| Cleopatra and Mrs Surrat | G |
| Wherever I went with messages | K |
| Mere trifling twaddle Spoon River agreed | G |
| You talk nonsense to children don't you | L |
| And suppose I see what you never saw | M |
| And never heard of and have no word for | N |
| I must talk nonsense when you ask me | I |
| What it is I see | I |
Edgar Lee Masters
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