The Epic Of The Hog Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGFG DHDH DDDD DIDI DGDG IJEJ EEKE FGFG ADAD ALAL FGFG MINI N ODPD| Man's Inhumanity to Hogs Makes Countless Thousands Squeal | A |
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| I lived upon a little farm | B |
| A happy hog was I | C |
| I never dreamed of any harm | B |
| Nor ever thought to die | C |
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| All day I wallowed in the mud | D |
| And ate the choicest slops | E |
| I watched the brindles chew their cud | D |
| The farmer tend his crops | E |
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| Upon the hottest days I'd go | F |
| And flounder in the river | G |
| I thought that hogs might come and go | F |
| But I would live forever | G |
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| Then finally I waxed so fat | D |
| That I could hardly walk | H |
| And then the farmers gather 'round | D |
| And all began to talk | H |
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| I couldn't understand a word | D |
| All I did was grunt | D |
| You see that's all a hog can do | D |
| It is his only stunt | D |
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| But finally they took me out | D |
| And put me on a train | I |
| I really couldn't move about | D |
| And squealed with might and main | I |
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| I grunted grunted as I flew | D |
| And moved in vain endeavor | G |
| But even then I thought it true | D |
| That I would live forever | G |
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| And so we came to Packingtown | I |
| Where there were hogs galore | J |
| I never saw so many hogs | E |
| In all my life before | J |
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| Then we had to shoot the chutes | E |
| And climb a flight of stairs | E |
| We never had a chance to stop | K |
| Or time to say our prayers | E |
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| Loud squealing hogs above below | F |
| They formed a seething river | G |
| For men may come and men may go | F |
| But hogs go on forever | G |
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| And then I saw an iron wheel | A |
| Which stood alone in state | D |
| And then I heard an awful squeal | A |
| A hog had met his fate | D |
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| A devilish chain upon the wheel | A |
| Had seized him by the leg | L |
| It was no use to kick and squeal | A |
| It was no use to beg | L |
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| I longed in deepest grief and woe | F |
| To leave that brimming river | G |
| If once into that room you go | F |
| Your fate is sealed forever | G |
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| Farewell Farewell a long farewell | M |
| Around the room I spin | I |
| And then a fellow with a knife | N |
| Smites me below the chin | I |
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| L'Envoi | N |
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| Dear reader I was just a hog | O |
| But O it's awful hard | D |
| To die disgraced and then to be | P |
| Turned into Pure Leaf Lard | D |
Edwin C. Ranck
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