The Bear Hunt Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG CHEH IJIK LMLK NINI OPOP QOQO OFOF NRNR SMSM ETUT VWVW OXOY ZOZO OQOQ OKOM A2B2C2B2 UD2UE2 UF2UQ AMAM| A wild bear chace didst never see | A |
| Then hast thou lived in vain | B |
| Thy richest bump of glorious glee | A |
| Lies desert in thy brain | B |
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| When first my father settled here | C |
| 'Twas then the frontier line | D |
| The panther's scream filled night with fear | E |
| And bears preyed on the swine | D |
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| But woe for Bruin's short lived fun | F |
| When rose the squealing cry | G |
| Now man and horse with dog and gun | F |
| For vengeance at him fly | G |
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| A sound of danger strikes his ear | C |
| He gives the breeze a snuff | H |
| Away he bounds with little fear | E |
| And seeks the tangled rough | H |
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| On press his foes and reach the ground | I |
| Where's left his half munched meal | J |
| The dogs in circles scent around | I |
| And find his fresh made trail | K |
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| With instant cry away they dash | L |
| And men as fast pursue | M |
| O'er logs they leap through water splash | L |
| And shout the brisk halloo | K |
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| Now to elude the eager pack | N |
| Bear shuns the open ground | I |
| Through matted vines he shapes his track | N |
| And runs it round and round | I |
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| The tall fleet cur with deep mouthed voice | O |
| Now speeds him as the wind | P |
| While half grown pup and short legged fice | O |
| Are yelping far behind | P |
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| And fresh recruits are dropping in | Q |
| To join the merry corps | O |
| With yelp and yell a mingled din | Q |
| The woods are in a roar | O |
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| And round and round the chace now goes | O |
| The world's alive with fun | F |
| Nick Carter's horse his rider throws | O |
| And more Hill drops his gun | F |
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| Now sorely pressed bear glances back | N |
| And lolls his tired tongue | R |
| When as to force him from his track | N |
| An ambush on him sprung | R |
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| Across the glade he sweeps for flight | S |
| And fully is in view | M |
| The dogs new fired by the sight | S |
| Their cry and speed renew | M |
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| The foremost ones now reach his rear | E |
| He turns they dash away | T |
| And circling now the wrathful bear | U |
| They have him full at bay | T |
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| At top of speed the horse men come | V |
| All screaming in a row | W |
| Whoop Take him Tiger Seize him Drum | V |
| Bang bang the rifles go | W |
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| And furious now the dogs he tears | O |
| And crushes in his ire | X |
| Wheels right and left and upward rears | O |
| With eyes of burning fire | Y |
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| But leaden death is at his heart | Z |
| Vain all the strength he plies | O |
| And spouting blood from every part | Z |
| He reels and sinks and dies | O |
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| And now a dinsome clamor rose | O |
| 'Bout who should have his skin | Q |
| Who first draws blood each hunter knows | O |
| This prize must always win | Q |
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| But who did this and how to trace | O |
| What's true from what's a lie | K |
| Like lawyers in a murder case | O |
| They stoutly argufy | M |
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| Aforesaid fice of blustering mood | A2 |
| Behind and quite forgot | B2 |
| Just now emerging from the wood | C2 |
| Arrives upon the spot | B2 |
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| With grinning teeth and up turned hair | U |
| Brim full of spunk and wrath | D2 |
| He growls and seizes on dead bear | U |
| And shakes for life and death | E2 |
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| And swells as if his skin would tear | U |
| And growls and shakes again | F2 |
| And swears as plain as dog can swear | U |
| That he has won the skin | Q |
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| Conceited whelp we laugh at thee | A |
| Nor mind that now a few | M |
| Of pompous two legged dogs there be | A |
| Conceited quite as you | M |
Abraham Lincoln
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