A Successful Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDE DFFGGGG GGHHII GGJ| There was a man who killed a loving maid | A |
| In some mad mood of passion and he paid | A |
| The price upon a scaffold Now his name | B |
| Stands only as a synonym for shame | B |
| There was another man who took to wife | C |
| A loving woman She was full of life | C |
| Of hope and aspirations and her pride | D |
| Clothed her like some rich mantle | E |
| - | |
| First the wide | D |
| Glad stream of life that through her veins had sway | F |
| He dammed by rocks cast in it day by day | F |
| Her flag of hope flung gaily to the world | G |
| He placed half mast and then hauled down and furled | G |
| The aspirations breathing in each word | G |
| By subtle ridicule were made absurd | G |
| - | |
| The delicate fine mantle of her pride | G |
| With rude unfeeling hands was wrenched aside | G |
| And by mean avarice or vulgar show | H |
| Her quivering woman's heart was made to know | H |
| That she was but a chattel bought to fill | I |
| Whatever niche might please the buyer's will | I |
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| So she was murdered while the slow years went | G |
| And her assassin honoured opulent | G |
| Lived with no punishment or social ban | J |
| 'A good provider a successful man ' | - |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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