The Menace Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIICC JJKKLLCCMMNN OOPPQQRR| The hat he wore was full of holes | A |
| And his battered shoes were worn to the soles | A |
| His shirt was a rag held together with pins | B |
| And his trousers patched with outs and ins | B |
| A negro tramp a roustabout | C |
| Less safe than a wild beast broken out | C |
| And like to a beast he slouched along | D |
| The lane which the birds made sweet with song | D |
| Where the wild rose wooed with golden eyes | E |
| The honeybees and the butterflies | E |
| But the bird's glad song and the scent of the rose | F |
| Meant nothing to him of the love man knows | F |
| If he heard or heeded 't was but to curse | G |
| Love had no place in his universe | G |
| And there in the lane one met with him | H |
| A girl of ten who was fair and slim | H |
| A farmer's daughter whose auburn hair | I |
| Shone bright as a sunbeam moving there | I |
| And bare of head as she was of foot | C |
| She passed the tramp with a smiled salute | C |
| She bore in her hand that was dark with stain | J |
| A pail of berries she'd picked I' the lane | J |
| Without a word he let her pass | K |
| Like a wildrose nodding above the grass | K |
| Innocent trusting free from guile | L |
| She met his look with a friendly smile | L |
| And he He laughed when the child had passed | C |
| And a furtive glance about him cast | C |
| Then turned and followed His chance was now | M |
| To serve the Whiteman out somehow | M |
| He would get even for many a kick | N |
| Now was his time to turn a trick | N |
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| Next day they found her battered and torn | O |
| Her small child's body hid under a thorn | O |
| And oh I wonder good brother of mine | P |
| Why God in His Heaven gave never a sign | P |
| Why she the lovely the young the shy | Q |
| Like a beast of the field should have to die | Q |
| While he the hideous kin to the ape | R |
| God in His Heaven should let escape | R |
Madison Julius Cawein
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