A Note Left In Jimmy Leonard's Shack Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBA CDEFDC GHGHIH JKLKMN BOBOPB| Near the dry river's water mark we found | A |
| Your brother Minnegan | B |
| Flopped like a fish against the muddy ground | A |
| Beany the kid whose yellow hair turns green | B |
| Told me to find you even if the rain | B |
| And tell you he was drowned | A |
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| I hid behind the chassis on the bank | C |
| The wreck of someone's Ford | D |
| I was afraid to come and wake you drunk | E |
| You told me once the waking up was hard | F |
| The daylight beating at you like a board | D |
| Blood in my stomach sank | C |
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| Beside you told him never to go out | G |
| Along the river side | H |
| Drinking and singing clattering about | G |
| You might have thrown a rock at me and cried | H |
| I was to blame I let him fall in the road | I |
| And pitch down on his side | H |
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| Well I'll get hell enough when I get home | J |
| For coming up this far | K |
| Leaving the note and running as I came | L |
| I'll go and tell my father where you are | K |
| You'd better go find Minnegan before | M |
| Policemen hear and come | N |
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| Beany went home and I got sick and ran | B |
| You old son of a bitch | O |
| You better hurry down to Minnegan | B |
| He's drunk or dying now I don't know which | O |
| Rolled in the roots and garbage like a fish | P |
| The poor old man | B |
James Arlington Wright
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