The Criminal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACBBCBDBBEB| Here is a tale for all who wish to listen | A |
| There was a thief who in his cut throat quarter | B |
| Was hailed as chief he had a way of barter | B |
| Persuasion masked behind a weapon's glisten | A |
| That made it cockrow with each good man's riches | C |
| At last he joined the Brotherhood of Murder | B |
| And rose in his profession lived a herder | B |
| Of crime in some dark tavern of the ditches | C |
| There was a war He went Became a gunner | B |
| And slew as soldiers should his many a hundred | D |
| In authorized and most professional manner | B |
| Here he advanced again Was starred a oner | B |
| Was captained pensioned and nobody wondered | E |
| And lived and died respectable as a tanner | B |
Madison Julius Cawein
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