Place For A Third Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEDFGHG IJKLMNOPPQROSNTUVWXQ YZWA2B2C2 D2WTWE2F2QIG2H2WI2E2 WB2J2K2WWL2 M2RVD2N2O2WP2GWQ2D2W WR2WS2W A2T2U2 FL2V2W2Nothing to say to all those marriages | A |
She had made three herself to three of his | A |
The score was even for them three to three | B |
But come to die she found she cared so much | C |
She thought of children in a burial row | D |
Three children in a burial row were sad | E |
One man's three women in a burial row | D |
Somehow made her impatient with the man | F |
And so she said to Laban You have done | G |
A good deal right don't do the last thing wrong | H |
Don't make me lie with those two other women | G |
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Laban said No he would not make her lie | I |
With anyone but that she had a mind to | J |
If that was how she felt of course he said | K |
She went her way But Laban having caught | L |
This glimpse of lingering person in Eliza | M |
And anxious to make all he could of it | N |
With something he remembered in himself | O |
Tried to think how he could exceed his promise | P |
And give good measure to the dead though thankless | P |
If that was how she felt he kept repeating | Q |
His first thought under pressure was a grave | R |
In a new boughten grave plot by herself | O |
Under he didn't care how great a stone | S |
He'd sell a yoke of steers to pay for it | N |
And weren't there special cemetery flowers | T |
That once grief sets to growing grief may rest | U |
The flowers will go on with grief awhile | V |
And no one seem neglecting or neglected | W |
A prudent grief will not despise such aids | X |
He thought of evergreen and everlasting | Q |
And then he had a thought worth many of these | Y |
Somewhere must be the grave of the young boy | Z |
Who married her for playmate more than helpmate | W |
And sometimes laughed at what it was between them | A2 |
How would she like to sleep her last with him | B2 |
Where was his grave Did Laban know his name | C2 |
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He found the grave a town or two away | D2 |
The headstone cut with John Beloved Husband | W |
Beside it room reserved the say a sister's | T |
A never married sister's of that husband | W |
Whether Eliza would be welcome there | E2 |
The dead was bound to silence ask the sister | F2 |
So Laban saw the sister and saying nothing | Q |
Of where Eliza wanted not to lie | I |
And who had thought to lay her with her first love | G2 |
Begged simply for the grave The sister's face | H2 |
Fell all in wrinkles of responsibility | W |
She wanted to do right She'd have to think | I2 |
Laban was old and poor yet seemed to care | E2 |
And she was old and poor but she cared too | W |
They sat She cast one dull old look at him | B2 |
Then turned him out to go on other errands | J2 |
She said he might attend to in the village | K2 |
While she made up her mind how much she cared | W |
And how much Laban cared and why he cared | W |
She made shrewd eyes to see where he came in | L2 |
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She'd looked Eliza up her second time | M2 |
A widow at her second husband's grave | R |
And offered her a home to rest awhile | V |
Before she went the poor man's widow's way | D2 |
Housekeeping for the next man out of wedlock | N2 |
She and Eliza had been friends through all | O2 |
Who was she to judge marriage in a world | W |
Whose Bible's so confused up in marriage counsel | P2 |
The sister had not come across this Laban | G |
A decent product of life's ironing out | W |
She must not keep him waiting Time would press | Q2 |
Between the death day and the funeral day | D2 |
So when she saw him coming in the street | W |
She hurried her decision to be ready | W |
To meet him with his answer at the door | R2 |
Laban had known about what it would be | W |
From the way she had set her poor old mouth | S2 |
To do as she had put it what was right | W |
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She gave it through the screen door closed between them | A2 |
No not with John There wouldn't be no sense | T2 |
Eliza's had too many other men | U2 |
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Laban was forced to fall back on his plan | F |
To buy Eliza a plot to lie alone in | L2 |
Which gives him for himself a choice of lots | V2 |
When his time comes to die and settle down | W2 |
Robert Lee Frost
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