The Feud Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CDCDD EFEFF GHGHH ICICC JKJKK LMLMM| Rocks trees and rocks and down a mossy stone | A |
| The murmuring ooze and trickle of a stream | B |
| Through bushes where the mountain spring lies lone | A |
| A gleaming cairngorm where the shadows dream | B |
| And one wild road winds like a saffron seam | B |
| - | |
| Here sang the thrush whose pure mellifluous note | C |
| Dropped golden sweetness on the fragrant June | D |
| Here cat and blue bird and wood sparrow wrote | C |
| Their presence on the silence with a tune | D |
| And here the fox drank 'neath the mountain moon | D |
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| Frail ferns and dewy mosses and dark brush | E |
| Impenetrable briers deep and dense | F |
| And wiry bushes brush that seemed to crush | E |
| The struggling saplings with its tangle whence | F |
| Sprawled out the ramble of an old rail fence | F |
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| A wasp buzzed by and then a butterfly | G |
| In orange and amber like a floating flame | H |
| And then a man hard eyed and very sly | G |
| Gaunt checked and haggard and a little lame | H |
| With an old rifle down the mountain came | H |
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| He listened drinking from a flask he took | I |
| Out of the ragged pocket of his coat | C |
| Then all around him cast a stealthy look | I |
| Lay down and watched an eagle soar and float | C |
| His fingers twitching at his hairy throat | C |
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| The shades grew longer and each Cumberland height | J |
| Loomed framed in splendours of the dolphin dusk | K |
| Around the road a horseman rode in sight | J |
| Young tall blonde bearded Silent grim and brusque | K |
| He in the thicket aimed The gun ran husk | K |
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| And echoes barked among the hills and made | L |
| Repeated instants of the shot's distress | M |
| then silence and the trampled bushes swayed | L |
| Then silence packed with murder and the press | M |
| Of distant hoofs that galloped riderless | M |
Madison Julius Cawein
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