Hunted Down Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDCDEE FFGGHIIJJ KKEEIILL MMCCNNOO PPQQRRSS DDMMTTUU VVUUDDGGTwo years had the tiger whose shape was that of a sinister man | A |
Been out since the night of escape two years under horror and ban | A |
In a time full of thunder and rain when hurricanes hackled the tree | B |
He slipt through the sludge of a drain and swam a fierce fork of the sea | B |
Through the roar of the storm and the ring | C |
and the wild savage whistle of hail | D |
Did this naked whipt desperate thing | C |
break loose from the guards of the gaol | D |
And breasting the foam of the bay and facing the fangs of the bight | E |
With a great cruel cry on his way he dashed through the darkness of night | E |
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But foiled was the terror of fin and baffled the strength of the tide | F |
For a devil supported his chin and a fiend kept a watch at his side | F |
And hands of iniquity drest the hellish hyena and gave | G |
Him food in the hills of the west in cells of indefinite cave | G |
Then strengthened and weaponed this peer | H |
of the brute on the track of its prey | I |
Sprang out and shed sorrow and fear through the beautiful fields of the day | I |
And pillage and murder and worse swept peace from the face of the land | J |
The black bitter work of this curse with the blood on his infamous hand | J |
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But wolf of the hills at the end chased back to the depths of his lair | K |
Had horror for neighbour and friend he supped in the dark with despair | K |
A whisper of leaf or a breath of the wind in the watch of the night | E |
Was ever as message of death to this devil bent double with fright | E |
For now were the hunters abroad and the fiend like an adder at bay | I |
Cast out of the sight of the Lord in the folds of his fastnesses lay | I |
Yea skulking in pits of the slime in venomous dens of eclipse | L |
He cowered and bided his time with the white malice set on his lips | L |
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Two years had his shadow been cast in forest on highway and run | M |
But Nemesis tracked him at last and swept him from under the sun | M |
Foul felons in chains were ashamed to speak of the bloodthirsty thing | C |
Who lived like a panther inflamed the life that no singer can sing | C |
Who butchered one night in the wild three women a lad and a maid | N |
And cut the sweet throat of a child its mother's pure blood on his blade | N |
But over the plains and away by the range and the forested lake | O |
Rode hard for a week and a day the terrible tracker Dick Blake | O |
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Dick Blake had the scent of a hound the eye of a lynx and could track | P |
Where never a sign on the ground or the rock could be seen by the black | P |
A rascal at large when he heard that Blake was out hard at his heels | Q |
Felt just as the wilderness bird in the snare fettered hopelessly feels | Q |
And hence when the wolf with the brand of Cain written thrice on his face | R |
Knew terrible Dick was at hand he slunk like a snake to his place | R |
To the depths of his kennel he crept far back in the passages dim | S |
But Blake and his mates never slept they hunted and listened for him | S |
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The mountains were many but he who had captured big Terrigal Bill | D |
The slayer of Hawkins and Lee found tracks by a conical hill | D |
There were three in the party no more Dick Blake and his brother and one | M |
Who came from a far away shore called here by the blood of his son | M |
Two nights and two days did they wait on the trail of the curst of all men | T |
But on the third morning a fate led Dick to the door of the den | T |
And a thunder ran up from the south and smote all the woods into sound | U |
And Blake with an oath on his mouth called out for the fiend underground | U |
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But the answer was blue bitter lead and the brother of Dick with a cry | V |
Fell back and the storm overhead set night like a seal on the sky | V |
And the strength of the hurricane tore asunder hill turrets uphurled | U |
And a rushing of rain and a roar made wan the green widths of the world | U |
The flame and the roll and the ring and the hiss of the thunder and hail | D |
Set fear on the face of the Spring laid bare to the arrow of gale | D |
But here in the flash and the din in the cry of the mountain and wave | G |
Dick Blake through the shadow dashed in and strangled the wolf in his cave | G |
Henry Kendall
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