One More Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLML NONP| With a smile and a kiss he went away | A |
| At the gate he turned and waved his hand | B |
| Then plunged once more in the sordid fray | A |
| Whose strain she could not understand | B |
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| She really thought that she loved him well | C |
| But she loved herself and children more | D |
| And realized only when he fell | C |
| What all his friends had known before | D |
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| He had always hid his own distress | E |
| And answered us with a brave Not yet | F |
| For boys must play and girls must dress | E |
| As do their mates in the social set | F |
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| At least she claimed that this was so | G |
| And he too dearly loved them all | H |
| To spoil their place in the passing show | G |
| And so rode on for a fatal fall | H |
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| He had earned enough for a simple life | I |
| If only they a word had said | J |
| So weary was he of the strife | I |
| But they were dumb and he is dead | J |
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| Yes he is gone and they are here | K |
| And now the purse he died to fill | L |
| Will keep them well for many a year | M |
| Of course submissive to God's will | L |
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| One victim more in the cruel race | N |
| With rivals he himself despised | O |
| For children who can ne'er replace | N |
| The father whom they sacrificed | P |
John L. Stoddard
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