Ramon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDEEFDGGD HHIDDJJIKLLKKI MMANNOAPPPA HHIHHQQQRRH STEEAUUVVE HHIGGWEFIW| Refugio Mine Northern Mexico | A |
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| Drunk and senseless in his place | B |
| Prone and sprawling on his face | B |
| More like brute than any man | C |
| Alive or dead | D |
| By his great pump out of gear | E |
| Lay the peon engineer | E |
| Waking only just to hear | F |
| Overhead | D |
| Angry tones that called his name | G |
| Oaths and cries of bitter blame | G |
| Woke to hear all this and waking turned and fled | D |
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| To the man who'll bring to me | H |
| Cried Intendant Harry Lee | H |
| Harry Lee the English foreman of the mine | I |
| Bring the sot alive or dead | D |
| I will give to him he said | D |
| Fifteen hundred pesos down | J |
| Just to set the rascal's crown | J |
| Underneath this heel of mine | I |
| Since but death | K |
| Deserves the man whose deed | L |
| Be it vice or want of heed | L |
| Stops the pumps that give us breath | K |
| Stops the pumps that suck the death | K |
| From the poisoned lower levels of the mine | I |
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| No one answered for a cry | M |
| From the shaft rose up on high | M |
| And shuffling scrambling tumbling from below | A |
| Came the miners each the bolder | N |
| Mounting on the weaker's shoulder | N |
| Grappling clinging to their hold or | O |
| Letting go | A |
| As the weaker gasped and fell | P |
| From the ladder to the well | P |
| To the poisoned pit of hell | P |
| Down below | A |
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| To the man who sets them free | H |
| Cried the foreman Harry Lee | H |
| Harry Lee the English foreman of the mine | I |
| Brings them out and sets them free | H |
| I will give that man said he | H |
| 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 | H |
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| Then they held their breath with awe | S |
| Pulling on the rope and saw | T |
| Fainting figures reappear | E |
| On the black rope swinging clear | E |
| Fastened by some skillful hand from below | A |
| 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 | E |
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| Haggard gasping down dropped he | H |
| At the feet of Harry Lee | H |
| Harry Lee the English foreman of the mine | I |
| I have come he gasped to claim | G |
| Both rewards Senor my name | G |
| Is Ramon | W |
| I'm the drunken engineer | E |
| I'm the coward Senor Here | F |
| He fell over by that sign | I |
| Dead as stone | W |
Bret Harte
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