His Dog Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD ECECFGFG HIHICJCJ KCKCCLCL| Pete bristles when the doorbell rings | A |
| Last night he didn't act the same | B |
| Dogs have a way of knowin' things | A |
| An' when the dreaded cable came | B |
| He looked at mother an' he whined | C |
| His soft low sign of somethin' wrong | D |
| As though he knew that we should find | C |
| The news that we had feared so long | D |
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| He's followed me about the place | E |
| An' hasn't left my heels to day | C |
| He's rubbed his nose against my face | E |
| As if to kiss my grief away | C |
| There on his plate beside the door | F |
| You'll see untouched his mornin' meal | G |
| I never understood before | F |
| That dogs share every hurt you feel | G |
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| We've got the pride o' service fine | H |
| As consolation for the blow | I |
| We know by many a written line | H |
| He went the way he wished to go | I |
| We know that God an' Country found | C |
| Our boy a servant brave an' true | J |
| But Pete must sadly walk around | C |
| An' miss the master that he knew | J |
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| The mother's bearing up as well | K |
| As such a noble mother would | C |
| The hurt I feel I needn't tell | K |
| I guess by all it's understood | C |
| But Pete his dog that used to wait | C |
| Each night to hear his cheery call | L |
| An' romped about him at the gate | C |
| Has felt the blow the worst of all | L |
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