Dogs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCA DE FFGGHH II JJKKLL MM FFNNOO PPI've never met a man who hated dogs | A |
One meets with all sorts as through life he jogs | A |
The mean ones and the vain ones and the rash | B |
The foolish fellows who splash up the cash | B |
The brisk 'live wires ' the dull the sodden logs | C |
But I have ne'er met one who hated dogs | A |
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I think I'm fortunate in this somehow | D |
For if we ever met there'd be a row | E |
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Mayhap I'm prejudiced mayhap I'm wise | F |
To judge a fresh acquaintance by his eyes | F |
But show me one who has a dogs' straight look | G |
And I can read that fellow like a book | G |
I know him for a man who'd be a friend | H |
A mate a sticker to the very end | H |
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He who can't comprehend this last remark | I |
Is not worth one poor mongrel's joyous bark | I |
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I left a dog up in the bush last week | J |
He was my one good pal who'd never seek | J |
To take advantage of my frailties | K |
And heaven knows I have enough of these | K |
He was my one good pal who trusted me | L |
And when the day of parting came why he | L |
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Well maybe we had better draw the line | M |
I get so sloppy o'er this frined of mine | M |
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But when I saw that look come in his eyes | F |
Well you know what it is when your dog tries | F |
To tell you things Oh I think it's all rot | N |
To say a man could hate dogs He could not | N |
Men surely are superior Well then | O |
Where could you find a dog who hates all men | O |
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My brothers think this over and reflect | P |
E'en curs hold qualities we may respect | P |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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