Song Of The Night-riders Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFGGHHDEIIJJ KKDELLMMNNDEAAOOPPDE| It's up and out with the bat and owl | A |
| We ride by night in fair and foul | A |
| In foul and fair we take the pike | B |
| And no man knows where our hand shall strike | B |
| For gun and pistol and torch and mask | C |
| These are our laws let any ask | C |
| And should one ask why tell him then | D |
| That we are the New Jeans Gentlemen | E |
| It's up and out with owl and bat | F |
| Where the road winds back by wood and flat | F |
| Black clouds are hunting the flying moon | G |
| Let them hunt her down and midnight soon | G |
| Shall blossom a wilder light when down | H |
| We gallop and shoot and burn the town | H |
| Who cares a curse who asks us then | D |
| For we are the New Jeans Gentlemen | E |
| It's up and on give the horse his head | I |
| The rain is out and the world in bed | I |
| Ride on to the village and then ride back | J |
| Where stands a house by the railroad track | J |
| Riddle its windows and batter its door | K |
| And call him out and shoot some more | K |
| And if he question why damn him then | D |
| Just shoot him down like gentlemen | E |
| Why he was a wretch beneath all scorn | L |
| Who planted the weed instead of corn | L |
| And here is another who sold by God | M |
| Just bare his back and ply the rod | M |
| Now burn his barn and sink or swim | N |
| It's sport for us but Hell for him | N |
| And well he'll know when we leave him then | D |
| That we are the New Jeans Gentlemen | E |
| Yes we are kin to the bat and owl | A |
| We wait till night then prey and prowl | A |
| The man who plants or sells this year | O |
| Our hounds shall smell him out no fear | O |
| The hunt is up Who'll bid us halt | P |
| We'll sow his beds with grass and salt | P |
| Or shoot him down like a dog and then | D |
| Ride off like New Jeans Gentlemen | E |
Madison Julius Cawein
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