A Dog's Mistake Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ| He had drifted in among us as a straw drifts with the tide | A |
| He was just a wand'ring mongrel from the weary world outside | A |
| He was not aristocratic being mostly ribs and hair | B |
| With a hint of spaniel parents and a touch of native bear | B |
| He was very poor and humble and content with what he got | C |
| So we fed him bones and biscuits till he heartened up a lot | C |
| Then he growled and grew aggressive treating orders with disdain | D |
| Till at last he bit the butcher which would argue want of brain | D |
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| Now the butcher noble fellow was a sport beyond belief | E |
| And instead of bringing actions he brought half a shin of beef | E |
| Which he handed on to Fido who received it as a right | F |
| And removed it to the garden where he buried it at night | F |
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| 'Twas the means of his undoing for my wife who'd stood his friend | G |
| To adopt a slang expression went in off the deepest end | G |
| For among the pinks and pansies the gloxinias and the gorse | H |
| He had made an excavation like a graveyard for a horse | H |
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| Then we held a consultation which decided on his fate | I |
| 'Twas in anger more than sorrow that we led him to the gate | I |
| And we handed him the beef bone as provision for the day | J |
| Then we opened wide the portal and we told him On your way | J |
Banjo Paterson
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violet: i love this poem because it reminds me of my old dog
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