Banjo Dog Variations Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFGH I JKLK MMNN OPCP Q RSRS TUVU VWCW VXYX VZVZ BBVV V VA2XB2 XXVX C2 D2E2F2E2 XCG2CH2

Tramps on the road floating clouds OLD CHINESE POEMA
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Agriculture and IndustryB
Embraced in public on a wallC
Heroes in shirt sleeves Next to themD
The average man felt smallC
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I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last nightE
By Vassar girls surroundedF
They harmonized expertly ohG
Their little true hearts poundedH
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Joe went on smilingI
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I thought I saw what Trotsky sawJ
A friendly cossack winkK
And then his friends brought down their clubsL
Christ what would Trotsky thinkK
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Train had just slowed for the crossing whenM
Out from the bushes jumped a hundred menM
With baseball bats and iron barsN
They persuaded us back onto the carsN
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And out of dirty fists sometimesO
Would bloom the melancholy harpP
Then low low low on the gon doh lahC
We swayed beneath our tarpP
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And far lights moving in and out of rainQ
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What you do with the Sunday newsR
Oh citizens of the great riffraffS
Is you put the funny papers in your shoesR
It gives the feet a laughS
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We read our brothers shirts for liceT
And moved around with the fruitU
Went north to Billings for the beetsV
And had three good days in the jail at ButteU
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We chalked our names on red cliffsidesV
High up where only eagles dwelledW
Each time a big truck went by belowC
The earth trembled like a woman heldW
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And we passed fields of smoking stumpsV
Where goats sometimes or ponies grazedX
Abandoned tractors stood against the skyY
Like giant fists upraisedX
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But if we bent our knees it wasV
To drink from a creek s rust colored slimeZ
And splash our chests with it and rub our eyesV
And wake into another world and timeZ
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Let us go then you and meB
While the neon bubbles upward ceaselesslyB
To lure us down back streets and alleywaysV
Where we may wander and be lost for daysV
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Many days and many hoursV
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I miss the smell of the ratty fursV
And saturday night cologne and beerA2
And I miss the juke and the sign that readX
NO POLICE SERVED HEREB2
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Off Mission wasn t it The oldX
White Angel Breadline where we metX
You had just come west from ArkansasV
But the rest of it I forgetX
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A cup of coffee afterwards a hymnC2
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Once we stood on a high bluffD2
Lights fanning out across the bayE2
A little ragged band of Christs we wereF2
And tempted but we turned awayE2
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And didn t I see you Saturday nightX
After the paycheck from the millC
Bearing a pot of store bought lilies homeG2
One budding stillC
Ah oh my banjo dogH2

Donald Justice



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