The Rag-picker Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDECDE| A pond of filth a sewer flows into | A |
| Around whose edge the evil ragweeds crowd | B |
| Poison in every breath and cloud on cloud | B |
| Insects that sing and sting the pool's fierce spew | A |
| All hideousness from every street and stew | A |
| And every stench weaves for the place a shroud | B |
| And in its midst a figure bent and bowed | B |
| A woman who no girlhood ever knew | A |
| Some offal of humanity she seems | C |
| One with the rags she picks and scrapes among | D |
| More soiled in soul the veriest rag | E |
| Of womankind whose squalor looks and dreams | C |
| Of nothing higher than the cart that flung | D |
| Its last load here from which she crams her bag | E |
Madison Julius Cawein
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