Crotalus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABA CCC DDD EEE FFF GGG HHH III JJJ KKK III LLL III BBB MMM LLL

No life in earth or air or skyA
The sunbeams broken silentlyB
On the bared rocks around me lieA
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Cold rocks with half warmed lichens scarredC
And scales of moss and scarce a yardC
Away one long strip yellow barredC
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Lost in a cleft 'Tis but a strideD
To reach it thrust its roots asideD
And lift it on thy stick astrideD
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Yet stay That moment is thy graceE
For round thee thrilling air and spaceE
A chattering terror fills the placeE
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A sound as of dry bones that stirF
In the dead Valley By yon firF
The locust stops its noonday whirF
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The wild bird hears smote with the soundG
As if by bullet brought to groundG
On broken wing dips wheeling roundG
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The hare transfixed with trembling lipH
Halts breathless on pulsating hipH
And palsied tread and heels that slipH
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Enough old friend 'tis thou ForgetI
My heedless foot nor longer fretI
The peace with thy grim castanetI
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I know thee Yes Thou mayst foregoJ
That lifted crest the measured blowJ
Beyond which thy pride scorns to goJ
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Or yet retract For me no spellK
Lights those slit orbs where some think dwellK
Machicolated fires of hellK
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I only know thee humble boldI
Haughty with miseries untoldI
And the old Curse that left thee coldI
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And drove thee ever to the sunL
On blistering rocks nor made thee shunL
Our cabin's hearth when day was doneL
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And the spent ashes warmed thee bestI
We knew thee silent joyless guestI
Of our rude ingle E'en thy questI
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Of the rare milk bowl seemed to beB
Naught but a brother's povertyB
And Spartan taste that kept thee freeB
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From lust and rapine Thou whose fameM
Searchest the grass with tongue of flameM
Making all creatures seem thy gameM
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When the whole woods before thee runL
Asked but when all was said and doneL
To lie untrodden in the sunL

Bret Harte



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