Jack Mcguire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEAAAFGHIJKLMANOP| They would have lynched me | A |
| Had I not been secretly hurried away | B |
| To the jail at Peoria | C |
| And yet I was going peacefully home | D |
| Carrying my jug a little drunk | E |
| When Logan the marshal halted me | A |
| Called me a drunken hound and shook me | A |
| And when I cursed him for it struck me | A |
| With that Prohibition loaded cane | F |
| All this before I shot him | G |
| They would have hanged me except for this | H |
| My lawyer Kinsey Keene was helping to land | I |
| Old Thomas Rhodes for wrecking the bank | J |
| And the judge was a friend of | K |
| Rhodes And wanted him to escape | L |
| And Kinsey offered to quit on | M |
| Rhodes For fourteen years for me | A |
| And the bargain was made | N |
| I served my time | O |
| And learned to read and write | P |
Edgar Lee Masters
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