Yorick Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCD EFGG HIHIJJ KLKLMM NONOPP QRQRSS FTFTUU VWVWT| Hard by an excavated street one sat | A |
| In solitary session on the sand | B |
| And ever and anon he spake and spat | A |
| And spake again a yellow skull in hand | B |
| To which that retrospective Pioneer | C |
| Addressed the few remarks that follow here | D |
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| 'Who are you Did you come 'der blains agross ' | - |
| Or 'Horn aroundt' In days o' ' | - |
| Did them thar eye holes see the Southern Cross | E |
| From the Antarctic Sea git up an' shine | F |
| Or did you drive a bull team 'all the way | G |
| From Pike ' with Mr Joseph Bowers say | G |
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| 'Was you in Frisco when the water came | H |
| Up to Montgum'ry street and do you mind | I |
| The time when Peters run the faro game | H |
| Jim Peters from old Mississip behind | I |
| Wells Fargo's where he subsequent was bust | J |
| By Sandy as regards both bank and crust | J |
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| 'I wonder was you here when Casey shot | K |
| James King o' William And did you attend | L |
| The neck tie dance ensuin' I did not | K |
| But j'ined the rush to Go Creek with my friend | L |
| Ed'ard McGowan for we was resolved | M |
| In sech diversions not to be involved | M |
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| 'Maybe I knowed you seems to me I've seed | N |
| Your face afore I don't forget a face | O |
| But names I disremember I'm that breed | N |
| Of owls I'm talking some'at into space | O |
| An' maybe my remarks is too derned free | P |
| Seein' yer name is unbeknown to me | P |
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| 'Ther' was a time I reckon when I knowed | Q |
| Nigh onto every dern galoot in town | R |
| That was as late as ' Now she's growed | Q |
| Surprisin' Yes me an' my pardner Brown | R |
| Was wide acquainted If ther' was a cuss | S |
| We didn't know the cause was he knowed us | S |
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| 'Maybe you had that claim adjoinin' mine | F |
| Up thar in Calaveras Was it you | T |
| To which Long Mary took a mighty shine | F |
| An' throwed squar' off on Jake the Kangaroo | T |
| I guess if she could see ye now she'd take | U |
| Her chance o' happiness along o' Jake | U |
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| 'You ain't so purty now as you was then | V |
| Yer eyes is nothin' but two prospect holes | W |
| An' women which are hitched to better men | V |
| Would hardly for sech glances damn their souls | W |
| As Lengthie did By G I hope it's you | T |
| For' kicks the skull 'I'm Jake the Kangaroo ' | - |
Ambrose Bierce
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