Hunted Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJIJ KLML KNON PJQJ| Oh why do they hunt so hard so hard who have | A |
| no need of food | B |
| Do they hunt for sport do they hunt for hate do | C |
| they hunt for the lust of blood | D |
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| If I were a god I would get me a spear I would | E |
| get me horse and dog | F |
| And merrily merrily I would ride through covert | G |
| and brake and bog | H |
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| With hound and horn and laughter loud over the | I |
| hills and away | J |
| For there is no sport like that of a god with a | I |
| man that stands at bay | J |
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| Ho but the morning is fresh and fair and oh | K |
| but the sun is bright | L |
| And yonder the quarry breaks from the brush and | M |
| heads for the hills in flight | L |
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| A minute's law for the harried thing then follow | K |
| him follow him fast | N |
| With the bellow of dogs and the beat of hoofs | O |
| and the mellow bugle's blast | N |
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| Hillo Halloo they have marked a man there is | P |
| sport in the world to day | J |
| And a clamor swells from the heart of the wood that | Q |
| tells of a soul at bay | J |
Don Marquis
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