Death-doomed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEAAFFDD AAGGHHDD AAIIJJDD DDKKEEDD LLMMNNDD OOFFPPPP MThey're taking me to the gallows mother they mean to hang me high | A |
They're going to gather round me there and watch me till I die | A |
All earthly joy has vanished now and gone each mortal hope | B |
They'll draw a cap across my eyes and round my neck a rope | B |
The crazy mob will shout and groan the priest will read a prayer | C |
The drop will fall beneath my feet and leave me in the air | C |
They think I murdered Allen Bayne for so the Judge has said | D |
And they'll hang me to the gallows mother hang me till I'm dead | D |
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The grass that grows in yonder meadow the lambs that skip and play | E |
The pebbled brook behind the orchard that laughs upon its way | E |
The flowers that bloom in the dear old garden the birds that sing and fly | A |
Are clear and pure of human blood and mother so am I | A |
By father's grave on yonder hill his name without a stain | F |
I ne'er had malice in my heart or murdered Allen Bayne | F |
But twelve good men have found me guilty for so the Judge has said | D |
And they'll hang me to the gallows mother hang me till I'm dead | D |
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The air is fresh and bracing mother the sun shines bright and high | A |
It is a pleasant day to live a gloomy one to die | A |
It is a bright and glorious day the joys of earth to grasp | G |
It is a sad and wretched one to strangle choke and gasp | G |
But let them damp my lofty spirit or cow me if they can | H |
They send me like a rogue to death I'll meet it like a man | H |
For I never murdered Allen Bayne but so the Judge has said | D |
And they'll hang me to the gallows mother hang me till I'm dead | D |
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Poor little sister 'Bell will weep and kiss me as I lie | A |
But kiss her twice and thrice for me and tell her not to cry | A |
Tell her to weave a bright gay garland and crown me as of yore | I |
Then plant a lily upon my grave and think of me no more | I |
And tell that maiden whose love I sought that I was faithful yet | J |
But I must lie in a felon's grave and she had best forget | J |
My memory is stained forever for so the Judge has said | D |
And they'll hang me to the gallows mother hang me till I'm dead | D |
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Lay me not down by my father's side for once I mind he said | D |
No child that stained his spotless name should share his mortal bed | D |
Old friends would look beyond his grave to my dishonored one | K |
And hide the virtues of the sire behind the recreant son | K |
And I can fancy if there my corse its fettered limbs should lay | E |
His frowning skull and crumbling bones would shrink from me away | E |
But I swear to God I'm innocent and never blood have shed | D |
And they'll hang me to the gallows mother hang me till I'm dead | D |
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Lay me in my coffin mother as you've sometimes seen me rest | L |
One of my arms beneath my head the other on my breast | L |
Place my Bible upon my heart nay mother do not weep | M |
And kiss me as in happier days you kissed me when asleep | M |
And for the rest for form or rite but little do I reck | N |
But cover up that cursed stain the black mark on my neck | N |
And pray to God for his great mercy on my devoted head | D |
For they'll hang me to the gallows mother hang me till I'm dead | D |
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But hark I hear a mighty murmur among the jostling crowd | O |
A cry a shout a roar of voices it echoes long and loud | O |
There dashes a horseman with foaming steed and tightly gathered rein | F |
He sits erect he waves his hand good Heaven 'tis Allen Bayne | F |
The lost is found the dead alive my safety is achieved | P |
For he waves his hand again and shouts The prisoner is reprieved | P |
Now mother praise the God you love and raise your drooping head | P |
For the murderous gallows black and grim is cheated of its dead | P |
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William Mckendree Carleton
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