The Limitations Of Youth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDDD EFEGHHHD IDIDDDDD JDJDKKKK| I'd like to be a cowboy an' ride a fiery hoss | A |
| Way out into the big an' boundless west | B |
| I'd kill the bears an' catamounts an' wolves I come across | C |
| An' I'd pluck the bal' head eagle from his nest | B |
| With my pistols at my side | D |
| I would roam the prarers wide | D |
| An' to scalp the savage Injun in his wigwam would I ride | D |
| If I darst but I darsen't | D |
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| I'd like to go to Afriky an' hunt the lions there | E |
| An' the biggest ollyfunts you ever saw | F |
| I would track the fierce gorilla to his equatorial lair | E |
| An' beard the cannybull that eats folks raw | G |
| I'd chase the pizen snakes | H |
| An' the 'pottimus that makes | H |
| His nest down at the bottom of unfathomable lakes | H |
| If I darst but I darsen't | D |
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| I would I were a pirut to sail the ocean blue | I |
| With a big black flag aflyin' overhead | D |
| I would scour the billowy main with my gallant pirut crew | I |
| An' dye the sea a gouty gory red | D |
| With my cutlass in my hand | D |
| On the quarterdeck I'd stand | D |
| And to deeds of heroism I'd incite my pirut band | D |
| If I darst but I darsen't | D |
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| And if I darst I'd lick my pa for the times that he's licked me | J |
| I'd lick my brother an' my teacher too | D |
| I'd lick the fellers that call round on sister after tea | J |
| An' I'd keep on lickin' folks till I got through | D |
| You bet I'd run away | K |
| From my lessons to my play | K |
| An' I'd shoo the hens an' tease the cat an' kiss the girls all day | K |
| If I darst but I darsen't | K |
Eugene Field
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