Analysis of Cowboy tales.



They sat around the campfire, and talked about their yarns.
How one had chased young Billy Picket, out of Sheriff John's barns!
How they rounded 200 head of steer, 'cross Black Canyon pass.
How they nearly toppled over the ridge, driving them, en mass!

They talked of when someone had drawn a gun, on liquor drinker Jim,
a shoot out at Sunrise corral, ensued, caused a big, old din!
When Fire and smoke, nearly  burnt down, their makeshift homes,
hoodlums and rednecks, looting the stores, with guns and stones!

Finally they settled in at night and tried to sleep, dream, tight.
Travis,thought he heard footsteps crunch, in the dead of night.
The horses had grown restless, turns out it was a stray, wild dog.
Next day, they  clambered on their mounts, for a homeward,  westward slog.


Scheme AABB XXXX CCXX
Poetic Form Quatrain  (33%)
Metre 1101010010111 111111010111011 111011111101 111010100110111 111111101110101 01111010110111 110011011111 100110011101 100110011011111 1111100111 010111011110111 111101111010101
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 786
Words 150
Sentences 10
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 51
Words per line (avg) 12
Letters per stanza (avg) 203
Words per stanza (avg) 46

About this poem

This POEM is about the lives of the cowboys in the great wild west and how they used to love to tell each other yarns, seated around the campfire. I feel this old way of life, of the cowboy, is dying out now in USA.

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Submitted by ljsanders on May 08, 2023

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