Ramon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDECFFC GGHCCIIHJKKJJH LLMNNOMPPPM GGHGGQQQRRG STDDMUUVVD GGHFFWDEHWDrunk and senseless in his place | A |
Prone and sprawling on his face | A |
More like brute than any man | B |
Alive or dead | C |
By his great pump out of gear | D |
Lay the peon engineer | D |
Waking only just to hear | E |
Overhead | C |
Angry tones that called his name | F |
Oaths and cries of bitter blame | F |
Woke to hear all this and waking turned and fled | C |
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To the man who'll bring to me | G |
Cried Intendant Harry Lee | G |
Harry Lee the English foreman of the mine | H |
Bring the sot alive or dead | C |
I will give to him he said | C |
Fifteen hundred pesos down | I |
Just to set the rascal's crown | I |
Underneath this heel of mine | H |
Since but death | J |
Deserves the man whose deed | K |
Be it vice or want of heed | K |
Stops the pumps that give us breath | J |
Stops the pumps that suck the death | J |
From the poisoned lower levels of the mine | H |
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No one answered for a cry | L |
From the shaft rose up on high | L |
And shuffling scrambling tumbling from below | M |
Came the miners each the bolder | N |
Mounting on the weaker's shoulder | N |
Grappling clinging to their hold or | O |
Letting go | M |
As the weaker gasped and fell | P |
From the ladder to the well | P |
To the poisoned pit of hell | P |
Down below | M |
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To the man who sets them free | G |
Cried the foreman Harry Lee | G |
Harry Lee the English foreman of the mine | H |
Brings them out and sets them free | G |
I will give that man said he | G |
Twice that sum who with a rope | Q |
Face to face with Death shall cope | Q |
Let him come who dares to hope | Q |
Hold your peace some one replied | R |
Standing by the foreman's side | R |
There has one already gone whoe'er he be | G |
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Then they held their breath with awe | S |
Pulling on the rope and saw | T |
Fainting figures reappear | D |
On the black rope swinging clear | D |
Fastened by some skillful hand from below | M |
Till a score the level gained | U |
And but one alone remained | U |
He the hero and the last | V |
He whose skillful hand made fast | V |
The long line that brought them back to hope and cheer | D |
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Haggard gasping down dropped he | G |
At the feet of Harry Lee | G |
Harry Lee the English foreman of the mine | H |
I have come he gasped to claim | F |
Both rewards Senor my name | F |
Is Ramon | W |
I'm the drunken engineer | D |
I'm the coward Senor Here | E |
He fell over by that sign | H |
Dead as stone | W |
Bret Harte (francis)
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