In Kentucky Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCBBBC BCBCBBBC BCBCDDDC BCBCBBBC BCBCBBBC ECECDDDC CCCCDDDC DCDCFFFC GCGCHHHC ICICJJKC DCDCLLLCA 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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