In Kentucky Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCBBBC BCBCBBBC BCBCDDDC BCBCBBBC BCBCBBBC ECECDDDC CCCCDDDC DCDCFFFC GCGCHHHC ICICJJKC DCDCLLLC| A Response to Judge Mulligan's Famous Toast | A |
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| The moonlight may be softest | B |
| In Kentucky | C |
| And summer days come oftest | B |
| In Kentucky | C |
| But friendship is the strongest | B |
| When the money lasts the longest | B |
| Or you sometimes get in wrongest | B |
| In Kentucky | C |
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| Sunshine is the brightest | B |
| In Kentucky | C |
| And a right is often rightest | B |
| In Kentucky | C |
| While plain girls are the fewest | B |
| They work their eyes the truest | B |
| They leave a fellow bluest | B |
| In Kentucky | C |
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| All debts are treated lightest | B |
| In Kentucky | C |
| So make your home the brightest | B |
| In Kentucky | C |
| If you have the social entree | D |
| You need never think of pay | D |
| Or at least that's what they say | D |
| In Kentucky | C |
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| Orators are the proudest | B |
| In Kentucky | C |
| And they always talk the loudest | B |
| In Kentucky | C |
| While boys may be the fliest | B |
| Their money is the shyest | B |
| They carry bluffs the highest | B |
| In Kentucky | C |
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| Pedigrees are longest | B |
| In Kentucky | C |
| Family trees the strongest | B |
| In Kentucky | C |
| For blue blood is a pride | B |
| But if you've ever tried | B |
| You'll find 'sporting blood' inside | B |
| In Kentucky | C |
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| Society is exclusive | E |
| In Kentucky | C |
| So do not be intrusive | E |
| In Kentucky | C |
| If you want the right of way | D |
| And have the coin to pay | D |
| You'll be in the swim to stay | D |
| In Kentucky | C |
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| The race track's all the money | C |
| In Kentucky | C |
| But don't you go there sonny | C |
| In Kentucky | C |
| For while thoroughbreds are fleetest | D |
| They get your coin the neatest | D |
| And leave you looking seediest | D |
| In Kentucky | C |
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| Short skates are the thickest | D |
| In Kentucky | C |
| They spot a sucker quickest | D |
| In Kentucky | C |
| They'll set up to a drink | F |
| Get your money 'fore you think | F |
| And you get the dinky dink | F |
| In Kentucky | C |
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| If you want to be fraternal | G |
| In Kentucky | C |
| Just call a fellow Colonel | G |
| In Kentucky | C |
| Or give a man a nudge | H |
| And say How are you Judge | H |
| For they never call that fudge | H |
| In Kentucky | C |
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| But when you have tough luck | I |
| In Kentucky | C |
| In other words get stuck | I |
| In Kentucky | C |
| Just raise your voice and holler | J |
| And you'll always raise a dollar | J |
| While a drink is sure to follow | K |
| In Kentucky | C |
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| 'Tis true that birds sing sweetest | D |
| In Kentucky | C |
| That women folk are neatest | D |
| In Kentucky | C |
| But there are things you shouldn't tell | L |
| About our grand old State and well | L |
| Politics is h l | L |
| In Kentucky | C |
Edwin C. Ranck
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