Mohammed Bek Hadjetlache Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDBBEBF| THIS Mohammedan colonel from the Caucasus yells with his voice and wigwags with his arms | A |
| The interpreter translates 'I was a friend of Kornilov he asks me what to do and I tell him ' | B |
| A stub of a man this Mohammedan colonel a projectile shape a bald head hammered | C |
| 'Does he fight or do they put him in a cannon and shoot him at the enemy ' | B |
| This fly by night this bull roarer who knows everybody | D |
| 'I write forty books history of Islam history of Europe true religion scientific farming I am the Roosevelt of the Caucasus I go to America and ride horses in the moving pictures for you get ' | B |
| 'I have acres in the Caucasus I have a stove factory in Petrograd the bolsheviks take from me I am an old friend of the Czar I am an old family friend of Clemenceau ' | B |
| These hands strangled three fellow workers for the czarist restoration took their money sent them in sacks to a river bottom and scandalized Stockholm with his gang of strangler women | E |
| Mid sea strangler hands rise before me illustrating a wish 'I ride horses for the moving pictures in America and you get ten per cent ' | B |
| This rider of fugitive dawns | F |
Carl Sandburg
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