To The Happy Hunting Grounds Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMLLNOPQWide windy reaches of high stubble field | A |
A long gray road bordered with dusty pines | B |
A wagon moving in a 'cloud by day ' | C |
Two city sportsmen with a dove between | D |
Breast high upon a fence and fast asleep | E |
A solitary dove the only dove | F |
In twenty counties and it sick or else | G |
It were not there Two guns that fire as one | H |
With thunder simultaneous and loud | I |
Two shattered human wrecks of blood and bone | J |
And later in the gloaming comes a man | K |
The worthy local coroner is he | L |
Renowned all thereabout and popular | M |
With many a remain All tenderly | L |
Compiling in a game bag the debris | L |
He glides into the gloom and fades from sight | N |
The dove cured of its ailment by the shock | O |
Has flown meantime on pinions strong and fleet | P |
To die of age in some far foreign land | Q |
Ambrose Bierce
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