The Mountain-still Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBCCBDAADEF G H IJJIIJJIKALKAL| The Moonshiner | A |
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| He leans far out and watches Down below | B |
| The road seems but a ribbon through the trees | C |
| The bluff from which he gazes whence he sees | C |
| Some ox team or some horseman come and go | B |
| Is briered with brush A man comes riding slow | B |
| Around a bend of road Against his knees | C |
| The branches whip He sits at careless ease | C |
| It is the sheriff armed for any foe | B |
| A detonation tears the echoes from | D |
| Each pine hung crag upon the rider's brow | A |
| A smear of red springs out he shades it now | A |
| His grey eyes on the bluff The crags are dumb | D |
| Smoke wreathes one spot The sheriff with a cough | E |
| Marks well that place and then rides slowly off | F |
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| II | G |
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| The Sheriff | H |
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| Night and the mountain road a crag where burns | I |
| What seems a star low down three men that glide | J |
| From tree and rock towards it one a guide | J |
| For him who never from his purpose turns | I |
| Who stands for law among these mountain kerns | I |
| At last the torchlit cave along whose side | J |
| The still is seen and men who have defied | J |
| The law so long law who the threshold spurns | I |
| With levelled weapons now Wolves in a den | K |
| Fight not more fiercely than these fought wild fear | A |
| In every face and rage and pale surprise | L |
| The smoke thins off and in the cave four men | K |
| Lie dead or dying one that mountaineer | A |
| And one the sheriff with the fearless eyes | L |
Madison Julius Cawein
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