The Meeting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FCFCGEGD CHCHCECD ICICCECE| When walkin' down a city street | A |
| Two thousand miles from home | B |
| The pavestones hurtin' of the feet | A |
| That never ought to roam | B |
| A pony jest reached to one side | C |
| And grabbed me by the clothes | D |
| He smelled the sagebrush durn his hide | C |
| You bet a pony knows | E |
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| I stopped and petted him and seen | F |
| A brand upon his side | C |
| I'll bet across the prairie green | F |
| He useter hit his stride | C |
| Some puncher of the gentle cow | G |
| Had owned him that I knows | E |
| Which same is why he jest says How | G |
| There's sagebrush in your clothes | D |
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| He knowed the smell no doubt it waked | C |
| Him out of some bright dream | H |
| In some far stream his thirst is slaked | C |
| He sees the mountains gleam | H |
| He bears his rider far and fast | C |
| And real the bull thing grows | E |
| When I come sorter driftin' past | C |
| With sagebrush in my clothes | D |
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| Poor little hoss It's tough to be | I |
| Away from that fair land | C |
| Away from that wide prairie sea | I |
| With all its vistas grand | C |
| I feel for you old hoss I do | C |
| It's hard the way life goes | E |
| I'd like to travel back with you | C |
| Back where that sagebrush grows | E |
Arthur Chapman
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