Whippoorwill Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFEGHIJKLMNOPQRB ST| The night Silas Broughton died | A |
| neighbors at his bedside heard | B |
| a dirge rising from high limbs | C |
| in the nearby woods and thought | D |
| come dawn the whippoorwill's song | E |
| would end one life given wing | F |
| requiem enough were wrong | E |
| for still it called as dusk filled | G |
| Lost Cove again and Bill Cole | H |
| answered caught in his field mouth | I |
| open as though to reply | J |
| so men gathered brought with them | K |
| flintlocks and lanterns then walked | L |
| into those woods searching for | M |
| death's composer and returned | N |
| at first light their faces lined | O |
| with sudden furrows as though | P |
| ten years had drained from their lives | Q |
| in a mere night and not one | R |
| would say what was seen or heard | B |
| or why each wore a feather | S |
| pressed to the pulse of his wrist | T |
Ron Rash
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