To A Stray Dog Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ACAC DEDE AFAF GHGH AIAI| Well Towser I'm thinking your name must be Towser | A |
| You're a decentish puppy as puppy dogs go | B |
| For you never I'm sure could have dined upon trowser | A |
| And your tail's unimpeachably curled just so | B |
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| But dear me your name if 'tis yours is a 'poser' | A |
| Its meaning I cannot get anywise at | C |
| When spoken correctly perhaps it is Toser | A |
| And means one who toses Max Muller how's that | C |
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| I ne'er was ingenious at all at divining | D |
| A word's prehistorical primitive state | E |
| Or finding its root like a mole by consigning | D |
| Its bloom to the turnep top's sorrowful fate | E |
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| And now that I think of it well I'm no nearer | A |
| The riddle's solution than ever for how's | F |
| My pretty invented word 'tose ' any clearer | A |
| In point of its signification than 'towse' | F |
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| So Towser or Toser I mean to rename you | G |
| In honor of some good and eminent man | H |
| In the light and the heat of whose quickening fame you | G |
| May grow to an eminent dog if you can | H |
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| In sunshine like his you'll not long be a croucher | A |
| The Senate shall hear you for that I will vouch | I |
| Come here sir Stand up I rechristen you Goucher | A |
| But damn you I'll shoot you if ever you gouch | I |
Ambrose Bierce
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