Backdropp Addresses Cowboy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GH IJKLH IMNOPQ FRSM TU VWX MY LZA2B2K C2L| Starspangled cowboy | A |
| sauntering out of the almost | B |
| silly West on your face | C |
| a porcelain grin | D |
| tugging a papier mache cactus | E |
| on wheels behind you with a string | F |
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| you are innocent as a bathtub | G |
| full of bullets | H |
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| Your righteous eyes your laconic | I |
| trigger fingers | J |
| people the streets with villains | K |
| as you move the air in front of you | L |
| blossoms with targets | H |
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| and you leave behind you a heroic | I |
| trail of desolation | M |
| beer bottles | N |
| slaughtered by the side | O |
| of the road bird | P |
| skulls bleaching in the sunset | Q |
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| I ought to be watching | F |
| from behind a cliff or a cardboard storefront | R |
| when the shooting starts hands clasped | S |
| in admiration | M |
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| but I am elsewhere | T |
| Then what about me | U |
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| what about the I | V |
| confronting you on that border | W |
| you are always trying to cross | X |
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| I am the horizon | M |
| you ride towards the thing you can never lasso | Y |
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| I am also what surrounds you | L |
| my brain | Z |
| scattered with your | A2 |
| tincans bones empty shells | B2 |
| the litter of your invasions | K |
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| I am the space you desecrate | C2 |
| as you pass through | L |
Margaret Atwood
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