In The Mountains Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBBCCBDEFDEF G H IFFIIFFIJKLJKL| Land Marks | A |
| The way is rock and rubbish to a road | B |
| That leads through woods of stunted oaks and thorns | C |
| Into a valley that no flower adorns | C |
| One mass of blackened brier overflowed | B |
| With desolation whence their mighty load | B |
| Of lichened limbs like two colossal horns | C |
| Two dead trees lift trees that the foul earth scorns | C |
| To vine with poison spotted like the toad | B |
| Here on gaunt boughs unclean red beaked and bald | D |
| The buzzards settle roost since that fierce night | E |
| When torched with pine knots grim and shadowy | F |
| Judge Lynch held court here and the dark appalled | D |
| Heard words of hollow justice and the light | E |
| Saw on these trees dread fruit swing suddenly | F |
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| II | G |
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| The Ox Team | H |
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| An ox team its lean oxen slow of tread | I |
| Weighed with an old time yoke creaked heavily | F |
| Along the mountain road Beside it three | F |
| Walked with no word A woman with bowed head | I |
| A young girl old before her youth had fled | I |
| Hugging a sleeping baby near her knee | F |
| A gaunt hound trotted Any one could see | F |
| The wagon held their all from box to bed | I |
| Slowly they creaked into the mountain town | J |
| And asked their way Their men had all been killed | K |
| Father and brother at some mountain ball | L |
| This girl the cause a man had shot them down | J |
| The father of the infant As God willed | K |
| They sought another State and that was all | L |
Madison Julius Cawein
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