Simon Legree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CCDDEFED GHGHIIJJKKKD LLD MMNNOOD PPQQRRSSD IIDTTUUD VVVWWW XXXDOOYYWWWDDDA Negro Sermon | A |
To be read in your own variety of negro dialect | B |
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Legree's big house was white and green | C |
His cotton fields were the best to be seen | C |
He had strong horses and opulent cattle | D |
And bloodhounds bold with chains that would rattle | D |
His garret was full of curious things | E |
Books of magic bags of gold | F |
And rabbits' feet on long twine strings | E |
BUT HE WENT DOWN TO THE DEVIL | D |
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Legree he sported a brass buttoned coat | G |
A snake skin necktie a blood red shirt | H |
Legree he had a beard like a goat | G |
And a thick hairy neck and eyes like dirt | H |
His puffed out cheeks were fish belly white | I |
He had great long teeth and an appetite | I |
He ate raw meat 'most every meal | J |
And rolled his eyes till the cat would squeal | J |
His fist was an enormous size | K |
To mash poor niggers that told him lies | K |
He was surely a witch man in disguise | K |
BUT HE WENT DOWN TO THE DEVIL | D |
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He wore hip boots and would wade all day | L |
To capture his slaves that had fled away | L |
BUT HE WENT DOWN TO THE DEVIL | D |
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He beat poor Uncle Tom to death | M |
Who prayed for Legree with his last breath | M |
Then Uncle Tom to Eva flew | N |
To the high sanctoriums bright and new | N |
And Simon Legree stared up beneath | O |
And cracked his heels and ground his teeth | O |
AND WENT DOWN TO THE DEVIL | D |
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He crossed the yard in the storm and gloom | P |
He went into his grand front room | P |
He said I killed him and I don't care | Q |
He kicked a hound he gave a swear | Q |
He tightened his belt he took a lamp | R |
Went down cellar to the webs and damp | R |
There in the middle of the mouldy floor | S |
He heaved up a slab he found a door | S |
AND WENT DOWN TO THE DEVIL | D |
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His lamp blew out but his eyes burned bright | I |
Simon Legree stepped down all night | I |
DOWN DOWN TO THE DEVIL | D |
Simon Legree he reached the place | T |
He saw one half of the human race | T |
He saw the Devil on a wide green throne | U |
Gnawing the meat from a big ham bone | U |
And he said to Mister Devil | D |
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I see that you have much to eat | V |
A red ham bone is surely sweet | V |
I see that you have lion's feet | V |
I see your frame is fat and fine | W |
I see you drink your poison wine | W |
Blood and burning turpentine | W |
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And the Devil said to Simon Legree | X |
I like your style so wicked and free | X |
Come sit and share my throne with me | X |
And let us bark and revel | D |
And there they sit and gnash their teeth | O |
And each one wears a hop vine wreath | O |
They are matching pennies and shooting craps | Y |
They are playing poker and taking naps | Y |
And old Legree is fat and fine | W |
He eats the fire he drinks the wine | W |
Blood and burning turpentine | W |
DOWN DOWN WITH THE DEVIL | D |
DOWN DOWN WITH THE DEVIL | D |
DOWN DOWN WITH THE DEVIL | D |
Vachel Lindsay
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