How Salty Win Out Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDBBEE FFGGCC EEAACC HHIICC JJKKCC| I used to think that luck wuz luck and nuthin' else but luck | A |
| It made no diff'rence how or when or where or why it struck | A |
| But sev'ral years ago I changt my mind an' now proclaim | B |
| That luck's a kind uv science same as any other game | B |
| It happened out in Denver in the spring uv ' when | C |
| Salty teched a humpback an' win out ten | C |
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| Salty wuz a printer in the good ol' Tribune days | D |
| An' natural like he fell into the good ol' Tribune ways | D |
| So every Sunday evenin' he would sit into the game | B |
| Which in this crowd uv thoroughbreds I think I need not name | B |
| An' there he'd sit until he rose an' when he rose he wore | E |
| Invariably less wealth about his person than before | E |
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| But once there came a powerful change one sollum Sunday night | F |
| Occurred the tidal wave that put ol' Salty out o' sight | F |
| He win on deuce an' ace an' Jack he win on king an' queen | G |
| Clif Bell allowed the like uv how he win wuz never seen | G |
| An' how he done it wuz revealed to all us fellers when | C |
| He said he teched a humpback to win out ten | C |
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| There must be somethin' in it for he never win afore | E |
| An' when he told the crowd about the humpback how they swore | E |
| For every sport allows it is a losin' game to luck | A |
| Agin the science uv a man who's teched a hump f'r luck | A |
| And there is no denyin' luck wuz nowhere in it when | C |
| Salty teched a humpback an' win out ten | C |
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| I've had queer dreams an' seen queer things an' allus tried to do | H |
| The thing that luck apparently intended f'r me to | H |
| Cats funerils cripples beggers have I treated with regard | I |
| An' charity subscriptions have hit me powerful hard | I |
| But what's the use uv talkin' I say an' say again | C |
| You've got to tech a humpback to win out ten | C |
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| So though I used to think that luck wuz lucky I'll allow | J |
| That luck for luck agin a hump aint nowhere in it now | J |
| An' though I can't explain the whys an' wherefores I maintain | K |
| There must be somethin' in it when the tip's so straight an' plain | K |
| For I wuz there an' seen it an' got full with Salty when | C |
| Salty teched a humpback an' win out ten | C |
Eugene Field
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