I wrote this poem for a group project in English class (my group got a 98% on the project!). We wrote a couple poems about chapters 17-20 of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which are about the Grangerford-Shepherdson feud and introduce the Duke and Dauphin. This was my personal favorite out of the ones I wrote-it's based on Emmeline's poem in chapter 17.
Ode to Buck Grangerford, Dec'd
Young Buck was barely fourteen
and already had a gun.
He kept it in his drawer, see,
to kill a Shepherdson.
He shot the hat off Harney,
though behind a bush he hid.
And though from fair it's far, he
said, "That's what the Shepherdsons did."
Well, Sophia ran off with the enemy,
with a note stuck in her book.
To the Grangerfords, this was a blasphemy!
He was nothing more than a crook.
They made it 'cross the water,
but Buck did not commend.
"If I'd just killed that plotter,
this whole affair would end."
But a Shepherdson approached for the slaughter,
and Buck took off at a run.
He plunged into the deep, blue water;
his hand still on his gun.
The crimson hue of bloodshed
did stain the river's bank.
For young Buck's grievous deathbed,
we have the feud to thank.
There lay Buck by the river
(for death there is no cure),
with a bullet in his liver
and a gun that would shoot no more.