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A Dull Eyed Rattlesnake That Lay

Joaquin Miller 1837 (Indiana) – 1913 (Oakland)

A dull eyed rattlesnake that lay
All loathsome, yellow-skinned, and slept,
Coil'd tight as pine-knot, in the sun
With flat head through the center run,
Struck blindly back.
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

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Scheme ABCCD
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 168
Words 28
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5
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Joaquin Miller

Cincinnatus Heine Miller, better known by his pen name Joaquin Miller, was a colorful American poet and frontiersman. He is nicknamed the "Poet of the Sierras" after the Sierra Nevada, about which he wrote in his Songs of the Sierras. more…

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