Moonshiners Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBCBDBDABABEFEF BGBGHDHDIJKJKBKBHLHL BMBMEMEMKMKMBNBNBOBO NBNBENENPBPBENENPNPN PNPN| How long we had hid there and listened | A |
| Where the trees let in winks o' the sun | B |
| 'Fore their Winchesters glittered and glistened | A |
| In the gully below by the run | B |
| I never kep' count It wuz mornin' | B |
| An' my legs wuz stove stiff with the chill | C |
| O' the night But my Lize had the warnin' | B |
| An' we knew it wuz up with the still | C |
| If we ever give up with our watchin' | B |
| The six on us me an' Bud Roe | D |
| Two Tollivers Dickon an' Hotchin | B |
| An' the posse nigh twenty or so | D |
| The evenin' before we had reckoned | A |
| The sheriff would ride through the glen | B |
| An' it took little less nor a second | A |
| To see how we manage it then | B |
| For the valley wound up in a' alley | E |
| Blind walled with bald bluffs an' no trees | F |
| At its bottom a trap of a valley | E |
| Scrub thicket not high as my knees | F |
| With me an' the Tollivers watchin' | B |
| The rear an' Bud Roe in the gap | G |
| With Dickon an' Hotch for the scotchin' | B |
| We had 'em like rats in a trap | G |
| So we all took a pull at the bottle | H |
| Lize brung me last evenin' an' though | D |
| We 'd eaten nor left whut would throttle | H |
| A fly we wuz hungry I know | D |
| Then a caw come hoarse through the quiet | I |
| We knew it the signal they'd reached | J |
| The gully an' when they'd passed by it | K |
| A hawk we had fixed it jest screeched | J |
| When a pewee had whistled we knew it | K |
| The signal the posse wuz in | B |
| Safe into the trap They would do it | K |
| An' we we wuz glad to begin | B |
| A pistol each side an' a rifle | H |
| Or two ready loaded Our height | L |
| Would help me to aim jest a trifle | H |
| To left an' my pards front an' right | L |
| An' we laid in the rocks never winkin' | B |
| Jest ready I heard the dry buzz | M |
| O' the grasshoppers thinkin' an' thinkin' | B |
| How lonesome an' solemn it wuz | M |
| When suddent I riz in a hurry | E |
| The laurel whipped back I could curse | M |
| Lize could n't git rid o' her worry | E |
| An' woman like come fer the worse | M |
| Jest then through the gully an' thicket | K |
| I seed the sun glim on the stocks | M |
| O' their Winchesters Slim as a picket | K |
| Lize stood by me there in the rocks | M |
| We waited until the last came in | B |
| I lined on the leader an' said | N |
| 'Shoot ' hoarsely We ushered the game in | B |
| With the sheriff an' deputy dead | N |
| It wuz a surprise for 'em certain | B |
| They saw 't wuz a trap an' rid back | O |
| But the three in the gap raised a curtain | B |
| With death dealin' crack upon crack | O |
| An' back to the gully with frighted | N |
| Sick faces they galloped like sin | B |
| An' we in the rocks lay an' sighted | N |
| An' hell jest happened agin | B |
| They wuz cornered they seed it an' grimly | E |
| They turned on their death an' I leant | N |
| With my gun on a rock an' seed dimly | E |
| They rid fer us shootin' hell bent | N |
| Through the smoke fer the thick o' our fire | P |
| Then Lize who wuz loadin' a gun | B |
| Shrieked somethin' an' jumped an' a wire | P |
| O' blood down her face She wuz done | B |
| There wuz six on 'em left But a baby | E |
| Could of finished me then with her dead | N |
| Instid o' myself An' it may be | E |
| The rest on us there had eat lead | N |
| If Bud had n't come with another | P |
| Them three wuz enough fer the rest | N |
| Gittin' off as they did I would bother | P |
| With nothin' her head on my breast | N |
| But they got me away an' together | P |
| Brung her to the cave with the shot | N |
| In her face May the buzzards now feather | P |
| And roost on them there where they rot | N |
Madison Julius Cawein
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