In The Record Room, Surrogate's Office Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHJBKB LMFMKNEN OPQPRSTS| A tomb where legal ghouls grow fat | A |
| Where buried papers fold on fold | B |
| Crumble to dust that 'thwart the sun | C |
| Floats dim a pallid ghost of gold | B |
| The day is dying All about | D |
| Dark threat'ning shadows lurk but still | E |
| I ponder o'er a dead girl's name | F |
| Fast fading from a dead man's will | E |
| - | |
| Katrina Harland fair and sweet | G |
| Sole heiress of your father's land | H |
| Full many a gallant wooer rode | I |
| To snare your heart to win your hand | H |
| And one perchance who loved you best | J |
| Feared men might sneer he sought her gold | B |
| And never spoke but turned away | K |
| Stubborn and proud to call you cold | B |
| - | |
| Cold Would I knew Perhaps you loved | L |
| And mourned him all a virgin life | M |
| Perhaps forgot his very name | F |
| As happy mother happy wife | M |
| Unanswered sad I turn away | K |
| You loved her first then First well no | N |
| You little goose the Harland will | E |
| Was proved full sixty years ago | N |
| - | |
| But Katrine's lands to day are known | O |
| To lawyers as the Glass House tract | P |
| Who were her heirs no record shows | Q |
| The title's bad in point of fact | P |
| If she left children at her death | R |
| I've been retained to clear the title | S |
| And all the questions raised above | T |
| Are you'll perceive extremely vital | S |
George Augustus Baker, Jr.
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