Christmas Shopping In Cactus Center Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCBB DDBB EFBB GHBB IIBB| Women's scarce in Cactus Center and there ain't no bargain stores | A |
| Fer to start them Monday rushes that break down the stoutest doors | A |
| But we had some Christmas shoppin' that the town ain't over yet | B |
| Jest because of one small woman and a drug store toilet set | B |
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| She was Cactus Center's teacher and she had n't left the stage | C |
| 'Fore she had the boys plum locoed and I don't bar youth nor age | C |
| She was cute and smart and pretty and she might 'a' been here yet | B |
| If it had n't been fer Dawson and his drug store toilet set | B |
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| It was old and scratched and speckled for 't was in his case for years | D |
| But ol' Dawson sharp and clever put a whisper in our ears | D |
| 'Lowed he'd sell that set at auction and he says Now boys you bet | B |
| This 'ill make a hit with Teacher this here swell new toilet set | B |
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| Well the biddin' stated lively and it got to gettin' hot | E |
| For every mind in Cactus on that single thing was sot | F |
| Purty soon I'd staked my saddle worth two hundred dollars net | B |
| Jest to own fer one short second that blamed drug store toilet set | B |
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| It was then began the shootin' no one seems to know jest how | G |
| And 't was lack of ammunition that at last broke up the row | H |
| And thirteen of us was hurted but the worst blow that we met | B |
| Was in findin' that some bullets had gone through that toilet set | B |
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| But we plugged the punctures in it and we plugged the wounded too | I |
| And agreed we'd arbitrate it and the bunch 'd see it through | I |
| So we sent a gift committee but they came back sorer yet | B |
| Fer the teacher'd fluttered Eastward so we've got that that toilet set | B |
Arthur Chapman
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