An Episode Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDECDE F GHIGGIHGDJKDJK| There was a man rode into town one day | A |
| Barefooted hatless and without a coat | B |
| It was the dead of winter Round his throat | B |
| Were marks of violence bits and wisps of hay | A |
| Bristled his beard and hair From far away | A |
| We saw him coming desolate and remote | B |
| And wild his gaze that of no man took note | B |
| Or seeming note and nothing would he say | A |
| But when he'd had a drink then drunk some more | C |
| He told us he had sold tobacco see | D |
| And all was lost At that he caught his breath | E |
| Last night a knock came at his cabin door | C |
| His son who answered was shot dead And he | D |
| Was caught and chok'd and almost beat to death | E |
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| II | F |
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| They said he'd sold tobacco and he knew | G |
| They ought to kill him burn his house and barn | H |
| And would unless he gave them this with scorn | I |
| The money he'd received What could he do | G |
| He had a little money it was true | G |
| Hid in an old pot underneath the corn | I |
| There in the crib he told them 'Twas a yarn | H |
| To get away They were a desperate crew | G |
| They set to work upon the crib and he | D |
| Got loose and on a horse and took to flight | J |
| They shot at him Whatever might occur | K |
| He did not care now they had burned you see | D |
| His home for miles its glare lit up the night | J |
| His wife and daughters God knows where they were | K |
Madison Julius Cawein
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