An Assassin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLAMNOAPQR STLSUVTWNAT| They caught him at the bend He and his son | A |
| Sat in the car revolvers in their laps | B |
| From either side the stone walled wintry road | C |
| There flashed thin fire streaks in the rainy dusk | D |
| The father swayed and fell shot through the chest | E |
| The son was up but one more fire streak leaped | F |
| Close from the pitch black of a thick set bush | G |
| Not five yards further and lit all the face | H |
| Of him whose sweetheart walked the Dublin streets | I |
| For lust of him who gave one yell and fell | J |
| Flat on the stony road a sweltering corse | K |
| Then they came out the men who did this thing | L |
| And looked upon their hatred's retribution | A |
| While heedlessly the rattling car fled on | M |
| Grey haired old Wolf your letch for peasants' blood | N |
| For peasants' sweat turned gold and silver and bronze | O |
| Is done for ever for ever and ever is done | A |
| O foul young Fox no more young girls' fresh lips | P |
| Shall bruise and bleed to cool your lecher's lust | Q |
| Slowly from out the great high terraced clouds | R |
| The round moon sailed The dead were left alone | S |
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| I talked with one of those who did this thing | L |
| A coughing half starved lad mere skin and bone | S |
| I said 'They found upon those dead men gold | U |
| Why did you not take it ' Then with proud raised head | V |
| He looked at me and said 'Sorr we're not thaves ' | T |
| Brother from up the maimed and mangled earth | W |
| Strewn with our flesh and bones wet with our blood | N |
| Let that great Word go up to unjust heaven | A |
| And smite the cheek of the Devil they've called 'God ' | T |
Francis William Lauderdale Adams
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