Riders In The Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBDEBFGHFGH I J KLLKMNOMPQRPSR I T UVVUUVVUWXYZXY A2 B2 C2D2D2C2C2D2D2E2F2G2 H2F2G2H2Masks | A |
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Death rides black masked to night and through the land | B |
Madness beside him brandishes a torch | C |
The peaceful farmhouse with its vine wreathed porch | C |
Lies in their way Death lifts a bony hand | B |
And knocks and Madness makes a wild demand | B |
Of fierce Defiance then the night's deep arch | D |
Reverberates and under beech and latch | E |
A dead face stares shot where one took his stand | B |
Then down the night wild hoofs the darkness beats | F |
And like a torrent through the startled town | G |
Destruction sweeps high overhead a flame | H |
And Violence that shoots amid the streets | F |
A piercing whistle one who gallops down | G |
And Death and Madness go the way they came | H |
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II | I |
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The Raid | J |
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Rain and black night Beneath the covered bridge | K |
The rushing Fork that roars among its rocks | L |
Nothing is out Nothing What's that which blocks | L |
The long grey road upon the rain swept ridge | K |
A horseman No A mask As hewn from jet | M |
With ready gun he waits and sentinels | N |
The open way Far off he hears wild bells | O |
And now a signal shrills through wind and wet | M |
Was that the thunder or the rushing stream | P |
The tunnel of the bridge throbs with mad hoofs | Q |
Now its black throat pours out a midnight cloud | R |
Riders behind whom steadily a gleam | P |
Grows to a glare that silhouettes dark roofs | S |
Whence armed Pursuit gathers and gallops loud | R |
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III | I |
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The Rendezvous | T |
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A lonely barn lost in a field of weeds | U |
A fallen fence where partly hangs a gate | V |
The skies are darkening and the hour is late | V |
The Indian dusk comes red in rainy beads | U |
Along a path which from a woodland leads | U |
Horsemen come riding who dismount and wait | V |
Here Anarchy conspires with Crime and Hate | V |
And Madness masks and on its business speeds | U |
Another Kuklux in another war | W |
Of blacker outrage down the night they ride | X |
Brandishing a torch and gun before each farm | Y |
Is Law asleep then Does she fear Where are | Z |
The servants of her strength the Commonweath's pride | X |
And where the steel of her restraining arm | Y |
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IV | A2 |
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In Black And Red | B2 |
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The hush of death is on the night The corn | C2 |
That loves to whisper to the wind the leaves | D2 |
That dance with it are silent one perceives | D2 |
No motion mid the fields as dry as horn | C2 |
What light is that It cannot be the morn | C2 |
Yet in the east it seems its witchcraft weaves | D2 |
A fiery rose Look how it grows it heaves | D2 |
And flames and tosses 'Tis a burning barn | E2 |
And now the night is rent with shouts and shots | F2 |
Dark forms and faces hurry past The gloom | G2 |
Gallops with riders Homes are less than straw | H2 |
Before this madness human lives mere lots | F2 |
Flung in and juggled from the cap of Doom | G2 |
Where Crime stamps yelling on the face of Law | H2 |
Madison Julius Cawein
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