A Question Of Privilege Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEC FGHIJ KLML NOPO QRQR QHQSH TUVU VWSW XAPA| Reported By Truthful James | A |
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| It was Andrew Jackson Sutter who despising Mr Cutter for remarks | B |
| he heard him utter in debate upon the floor | C |
| Swung him up into the skylight in the peaceful pensive twilight | D |
| and then keerlessly proceeded makin' no account what WE did | E |
| To wipe up with his person casual dust upon the floor | C |
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| Now a square fight never frets me nor unpleasantness upsets me but | F |
| the simple thing that gets me now the job is done and gone | G |
| And we've come home free and merry from the peaceful cemetery | H |
| leavin' Cutter there with Sutter that mebbee just a stutter | I |
| On the part of Mr Cutter caused the loss we deeply mourn | J |
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| Some bashful hesitation just like spellin' punctooation might have | K |
| worked an aggravation on to Sutter's mournful mind | L |
| For the witnesses all vary ez to wot was said and nary a galoot will | M |
| toot his horn except the way he is inclined | L |
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| But they all allow that Sutter had begun a kind of mutter when | N |
| uprose Mr Cutter with a sickening kind of ease | O |
| And proceeded then to wade in to the subject then prevadin' Is | P |
| Profanity degradin' in words like unto these | O |
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| Onlike the previous speaker Mr Sutter of Yreka he was but a | Q |
| humble seeker and not like him a cuss | R |
| It was here that Mr Sutter softly reached for Mr Cutter when the | Q |
| latter with a stutter said ac customed to discuss | R |
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| Then Sutter he rose grimly and sorter smilin' dimly bowed onto the | Q |
| Chairman primly just like Cutter ez could be | H |
| Drawled he guessed he must fall back as Mr Cutter owned the | Q |
| pack as he just had played the Jack as here Cutter's gun | S |
| went crack as Mr Sutter gasped and ended every man can see | H |
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| But William Henry Pryor just in range of Sutter's fire here | T |
| evinced a wild desire to do somebody harm | U |
| And in the general scrimmage no one thought if Sutter's image was | V |
| a misplaced punctooation like the hole in Pryor's arm | U |
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| For we all waltzed in together never carin' to ask whether it was | V |
| Sutter or was Cutter we woz tryin' to abate | W |
| But we couldn't help perceivin' when we took to inkstand heavin' | S |
| that the process was relievin' to the sharpness of debate | W |
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| So we've come home free and merry from the peaceful cemetery and I | X |
| make no commentary on these simple childish games | A |
| Things is various and human and the man ain't born of woman who is | P |
| free to intermeddle with his pal's intents and aims | A |
Bret Harte
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