Vaquero Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC DCDCCEFEE GHGHHIHII| His broad brimmed hat pushed back with careless air | A |
| The proud vaquero sits his steed as free | B |
| As winds that toss his black abundant hair | A |
| No rover ever swept a lawless sea | B |
| With such a haught and heedless air as he | B |
| Who scorns the path and bounds with swift disdain | C |
| Away a peon born yet born to be | B |
| A splendid king behold him ride and reign | C |
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| How brave he takes his herds in branding days | D |
| On timbered hills that belt about the plain | C |
| He climbs he wheels he shouts through winding ways | D |
| Of hiding ferns and hanging fir the rein | C |
| Is loose the rattling spur drives swift the mane | C |
| Blows free the bullocks rush in storms before | E |
| They turn with lifted heads they rush again | F |
| Then sudden plunge from out the wood and pour | E |
| A cloud upon the plain with one terrific roar | E |
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| Now sweeps the tawny man on stormy steed | G |
| His gaudy trappings tossed about and blown | H |
| About the limbs as lithe as any reed | G |
| The swift long lasso twirled above is thrown | H |
| From flying hand the fall the fearful groan | H |
| Of bullock toiled and tumbled in the dust | I |
| The black herds onward sweep and all disown | H |
| The fallen struggling monarch that has thrust | I |
| His tongue in rage and rolled his red eyes in disgust | I |
Joaquin Miller
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