Truthful James To The Editor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CDCDD EFEGH IJIJJ DGDDD KLKLL FIDII MIMII NONOO ABABBWhich it is not my style | A |
To produce needless pain | B |
By statements that rile | A |
Or that go 'gin the grain | B |
But here's Captain Jack still a livin' and Nye has no skelp on his brain | B |
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On that Caucasian head | C |
There is no crown of hair | D |
It has gone it has fled | C |
And Echo sez Where | D |
And I asks Is this Nation a White Man's and is generally things on the square | D |
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She was known in the camp | E |
As Nye's other squaw | F |
And folks of that stamp | E |
Hez no rights in the law | G |
But is treacherous sinful and slimy as Nye might hev well known before | H |
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But she said that she knew | I |
Where the Injins was hid | J |
And the statement was true | I |
For it seemed that she did | J |
Since she led William where he was covered by seventeen Modocs and slid | J |
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Then they reached for his hair | D |
But Nye sez By the law | G |
Of nations forbear | D |
I surrenders no more | D |
And I looks to be treated you hear me as a pris'ner a pris'ner of war | D |
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But Captain Jack rose | K |
And he sez It's too thin | L |
Such statements as those | K |
It's too late to begin | L |
There's a Modoc Indictment agin you O Paleface and you're goin' in | L |
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You stole Schonchin's squaw | F |
In the year sixty two | I |
It was in sixty four | D |
That Long Jack you went through | I |
And you burned Nasty Jim's rancheria and his wives and his papooses too | I |
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This gun in my hand | M |
Was sold me by you | I |
'Gainst the law of the land | M |
And I grieves it is true | I |
And he buried his face in his blanket and wept as he hid it from view | I |
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But you're tried and condemned | N |
And skelping's your doom | O |
And he paused and he hemmed | N |
But why this resume | O |
He was skelped 'gainst the custom of nations and cut off like a rose in its bloom | O |
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So I asks without guile | A |
And I trusts not in vain | B |
If this is the style | A |
That is going to obtain | B |
If here's Captain Jack still a livin' and Nye with no skelp on his brain | B |
Bret Harte (francis)
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