Truthful James To The Editor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CDCDD EFEGH IJIJJ DGDDD KLKLL FIDII MIMII NONOO ABABB

Which it is not my styleA
To produce needless painB
By statements that rileA
Or that go 'gin the grainB
But here's Captain Jack still a livin' and Nye has no skelp on his brainB
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On that Caucasian headC
There is no crown of hairD
It has gone it has fledC
And Echo sez WhereD
And I asks Is this Nation a White Man's and is generally things on the squareD
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She was known in the campE
As Nye's other squawF
And folks of that stampE
Hez no rights in the lawG
But is treacherous sinful and slimy as Nye might hev well known beforeH
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But she said that she knewI
Where the Injins was hidJ
And the statement was trueI
For it seemed that she didJ
Since she led William where he was covered by seventeen Modocs and slidJ
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Then they reached for his hairD
But Nye sez By the lawG
Of nations forbearD
I surrenders no moreD
And I looks to be treated you hear me as a pris'ner a pris'ner of warD
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But Captain Jack roseK
And he sez It's too thinL
Such statements as thoseK
It's too late to beginL
There's a Modoc Indictment agin you O Paleface and you're goin' inL
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You stole Schonchin's squawF
In the year sixty twoI
It was in sixty fourD
That Long Jack you went throughI
And you burned Nasty Jim's rancheria and his wives and his papooses tooI
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This gun in my handM
Was sold me by youI
'Gainst the law of the landM
And I grieves it is trueI
And he buried his face in his blanket and wept as he hid it from viewI
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But you're tried and condemnedN
And skelping's your doomO
And he paused and he hemmedN
But why this resumeO
He was skelped 'gainst the custom of nations and cut off like a rose in its bloomO
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So I asks without guileA
And I trusts not in vainB
If this is the styleA
That is going to obtainB
If here's Captain Jack still a livin' and Nye with no skelp on his brainB

Bret Harte (francis)



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