In Response To A Rumor That The Oldest Whorehouse In Wheeling, West Virginia, Has Been Condemned Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHIFJGG KFCL MNGO PQO| I will grieve alone | A |
| As I strolled alone years ago down along | B |
| The Ohio shore | C |
| I hid in the hobo jungle weeds | D |
| Upstream from the sewer main | E |
| Pondering gazing | F |
| - | |
| I saw down river | G |
| At Twenty third and Water Streets | H |
| By the vinegar works | I |
| The doors open in early evening | F |
| Swinging their purses the women | J |
| Poured down the long street to the river | G |
| And into the river | G |
| - | |
| I do not know how it was | K |
| They could drown every evening | F |
| What time near dawn did they climb up the other shore | C |
| Drying their wings | L |
| - | |
| For the river at Wheeling West Virginia | M |
| Has only two shores | N |
| The one in hell the other | G |
| In Bridgeport Ohio | O |
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| And nobody would commit suicide only | P |
| To find beyond death | Q |
| Bridgeport Ohio | O |
James Arlington Wright
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