The Man Hunt Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BC DD EE FF GH II EE EE DD JJ KK EE LL BB MN GG OP| THE woods stretch wild to the mountain side | A |
| And the brush is deep where a man may hide | A |
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| They have brought the bloodhounds up again | B |
| To the roadside rock where they found the slain | C |
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| They have brought the bloodhounds up and they | D |
| Have taken the trail to the mountain way | D |
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| Three times they circled the trail and crossed | E |
| And thrice they found it and thrice they lost | E |
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| Now straight through the pines and the underbrush | F |
| They follow the scent through the forest's hush | F |
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| And their deep mouthed bay is a pulse of fear | G |
| In the heart of the wood that the man must hear | H |
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| The man who crouches among the trees | I |
| From the stern faced men that follow these | I |
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| A huddle of rocks that the ooze has mossed | E |
| And the trail of the hunted again is lost | E |
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| An upturned pebble a bit of ground | E |
| A heel has trampled the trail is found | E |
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| And the woods re echo the bloodhounds' bay | D |
| As again they take to the mountain way | D |
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| A rock a ribbon of road a ledge | J |
| With a pine tree clutching its crumbling edge | J |
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| A pine that the lightning long since clave | K |
| Whose huge roots hollow a ragged cave | K |
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| A shout a curse and a face aghast | E |
| And the human quarry is laired at last | E |
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| The human quarry with clay clogged hair | L |
| And eyes of terror who waits them there | L |
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| That glares and crouches and rising then | B |
| Hurls clods and curses at dogs and men | B |
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| Until the blow of a gun butt lays | M |
| Him stunned and bleeding upon his face | N |
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| A rope a prayer and an oak tree near | G |
| And a score of hands to swing him clear | G |
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| A grim black thing for the setting sun | O |
| And the moon and the stars to look upon | P |
Madison Julius Cawein
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