The Ride To Bumpville Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCB DBDBEEEB FBFBGGGB HBHBIIIB HBHBFFFB| Play that my knee was a calico mare | A |
| Saddled and bridled for Bumpville | B |
| Leap to the back of this steed if you dare | A |
| And gallop away to Bumpville | B |
| I hope you'll be sure to sit fast in your seat | C |
| For this calico mare is prodigiously fleet | C |
| And many adventures you're likely to meet | C |
| As you journey along to Bumpville | B |
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| This calico mare both gallops and trots | D |
| While whisking you off to Bumpville | B |
| She paces she shies and she stumbles in spots | D |
| In the tortuous road to Bumpville | B |
| And sometimes this strangely mercurial steed | E |
| Will suddenly stop and refuse to proceed | E |
| Which all will admit is vexatious indeed | E |
| When one is en route to Bumpville | B |
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| She's scared of the cars when the engine goes Toot | F |
| Down by the crossing at Bumpville | B |
| You'd better look out for that treacherous brute | F |
| Bearing you off to Bumpville | B |
| With a snort she rears up on her hindermost heels | G |
| And executes jigs and Virginia reels | G |
| Words fail to explain how embarrassed one feels | G |
| Dancing so wildly to Bumpville | B |
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| It's bumpytybump and it's jiggytyjog | H |
| Journeying on to Bumpville | B |
| It's over the hilltop and down through the bog | H |
| You ride on your way to Bumpville | B |
| It's rattletybang over boulder and stump | I |
| There are rivers to ford there are fences to jump | I |
| And the corduroy road it goes bumpytybump | I |
| Mile after mile to bumpville | B |
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| Perhaps you'll observe it's no easy thing | H |
| Making the journey to Bumpville | B |
| So I think on the whole it were prudent to bring | H |
| An end to this ride to Bumpville | B |
| For though she has uttered no protest or plaint | F |
| The calico mare must be blowing and faint | F |
| What's more to the point I'm blowed if I ain't | F |
| So play we have got to Bumpville | B |
Eugene Field
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