Jack Of The Tules Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD DEFG HIAD BDJD JACA AAAK BLAA ADMD DAJN NGBO DPDA AQRA QCJS NTQK AAJE AUGA| Shrewdly you question Senor and I fancy | A |
| You are no novice Confess that to little | B |
| Of my poor gossip of Mission and Pueblo | C |
| You are a stranger | D |
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| Am I not right Ah believe me that ever | D |
| Since we joined company at the posada | E |
| I've watched you closely and pardon an old priest | F |
| I've caught you smiling | G |
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| Smiling to hear an old fellow like me talk | H |
| Gossip of pillage and robbers and even | I |
| Air his opinion of law and alcaldes | A |
| Like any other | D |
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| Now by that twist of the wrist on the bridle | B |
| By that straight line from the heel to the shoulder | D |
| By that curt speech nay nay no offense son | J |
| You are a soldier | D |
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| No Then a man of affairs San Sebastian | J |
| 'Twould serve me right if I prattled thus wildly | A |
| To say a sheriff No just caballero | C |
| Well more's the pity | A |
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| Ah what we want here's a man of your presence | A |
| Sano Secreto yes all the four S's | A |
| Joined with a boldness and dash when the time comes | A |
| And may I say it | K |
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| One not too hard on the poor country people | B |
| Peons and silly vaqueros who dazzled | L |
| By reckless skill and perchance reckless largesse | A |
| Wink at some queer things | A |
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| No You would crush them as well as the robbers | A |
| Root them out scatter them Ah you are bitter | D |
| And yet quien sabe perhaps that's the one way | M |
| To catch their leader | D |
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| As to myself now I'd share your displeasure | D |
| For I admit in this Jack of the Tules | A |
| Certain good points He still comes to confession | J |
| You'd like to catch him | N |
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| Ah if you did at such times you might lead him | N |
| Home by a thread Good Again you are smiling | G |
| You have no faith in such shrift and but little | B |
| In priest or penitent | O |
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| Bueno We take no offense sir whatever | D |
| It please you to say it becomes us for Church sake | P |
| To bear in peace Yet if you were kinder | D |
| And less suspicious | A |
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| I might still prove to you Jack of the Tules | A |
| Shames not our teaching nay even might show you | Q |
| Hard by this spot his old comrade who wounded | R |
| Lives on his bounty | A |
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| If ah you listen I see I can trust you | Q |
| Then on your word as a gentleman follow | C |
| Under that sycamore stands the old cabin | J |
| There sits his comrade | S |
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| Eh are you mad You would try to arrest him | N |
| You with a warrant Oh well take the rest of them | T |
| Pedro Bill Murray Pat Doolan Hey all of you | Q |
| Tumble out d n it | K |
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| There that'll do boys Stand back Ease his elbows | A |
| Take the gag from his mouth Good Now scatter like devils | A |
| After his posse four straggling four drunken | J |
| At the posada | E |
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| You help me off with these togs and then vamos | A |
| Now ole Jeff Dobbs Sheriff Scout and Detective | U |
| You're so derned 'cute Kinder sick ain't ye bluffing | G |
| Jack of the Tules | A |
Bret Harte (francis)
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