"First I went to drinkin, then to card playin".
The Dying Cowboy line 11.
This line is in complete contrast with the two before it as it talkes about gambling and drinking which in the society of the time was considered as what a tough man would do but yet at the same time it was considered as a bad thing so this would have completely shocked the audience as only two line before he was ridding his horse and being gay. Later on the cowboy rapped in white linen talks about his funeral .
Let sixteen gamblers come handle my coffin.
. Put roes to deaden the clods .
As they fall.
The Dying Cowboy line 13-16.
The last line of that verse is very sad and depressing as it says when you burry me put roes on my coffin so it deadens the mud that you bury me under. The author uses the beauty of roes on the coffin to almost brighten up the whole funeral as he has put the roes, which are a simble of love and beauty in a verse about death, which is black, and dull this also adds mood to the poem. Also in that verse he says let sixteen gamblers carry my coffin this I believe is to remind the people at the funeral that the reaon he is dead is because of gambling. The penultimate verse is about what he would like the people to do when they burry him but at the end of the verse he says:.
For I"m young Cowboy and I know I have done wrong.
The dying Cowboy line 20.
This is the last Thing the cowboy wrapped in white linen say's in the balled it is very deep and regret full as he says he is young and he knows he's done wrong this is like a final statement saying he is sorry almost for all he has done wrong this would add a lot of feeling to the balled mainly sorrow and sympathy. The very last verse talks about the funeral of the cowboy and they fulfil he's wish and play the Drums slowly and played the fife lowly later on in the verse they say how they all loved there comrade .
For we all loved are comrade so brave, young .
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