Jones' Mare. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCD A EEFF A GGHH I IIJJ I HHKK I LLII I MMNN I LLOO I PPQQ I RRSSI | A |
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Now Farmer Jones was noted for fast horses on his place | B |
And also as the father of a son with freckled face | B |
And hair so red it looked as if it had been dyed in blood | C |
And Ephraim was the masher of the country neighborhood | D |
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II | A |
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This Ephraim Jones' yellow mare she was no nice and fleet | E |
That all the girls for miles around on Eph were very sweet | E |
In hopes to get a ride or two behind her on the road | F |
With sleigh bells jingling 'round her neck some day when it had snowed | F |
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III | A |
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Or else to spin along the pike with buggy top let down | G |
And ribbons sailing out behind when Eph would drive to town | G |
The envy of the country boys and many maidens fair | H |
A casting wistful glances at the youth with reddish hair | H |
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IV | I |
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This thing went on till finally our Ephraim fell in love | I |
With Tildy Ann Serepty Brown as gentle as a dove | I |
Of all the girls around about the reigning country bell | J |
Whose father was as rich as cream he'd struck an oil well | J |
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V | I |
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About three nights in every week could Ephraim's yellow mare | H |
Be found a standing hitched outside while he was courting there | H |
And so the boys with envy mad and jealousy aroused | K |
To humble Eph hit on a plan they heartily espoused | K |
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VI | I |
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If anything in all the world beside sweet Tildy Ann | L |
Was dear to Ephraim's eye and heart it was his claybank Fan | L |
He boasted of her speed and looks and of her pedigree | I |
Said more intelligence in a brute no man would ever see | I |
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VII | I |
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He kept her curried till her coat it shone like burnished gold | M |
With silver mounted harness on a beauty to behold | M |
A brand new buggy hitched to her a glinting in the sun | N |
She took the cake for speed and style from every other one | N |
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VIII | I |
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They heard that Eph one night would call upon his Tildy Ann | L |
To make arrangements all complete to carry out a plan | L |
It would be Sunday following when all in style he'd go | O |
With Tildy and the yellow mare to the country bonnet show | O |
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IX | I |
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Supplied with brushes cans of paint of every shade and hue | P |
And to furnish light by which to work a bull's eye lantern too | P |
At ten o'clock that night so dark you couldn't see a wink | Q |
They striped his Fan with red and brown and black and blue and pink | Q |
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X | I |
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Next morning when he went to feed and opened wide the door | R |
No zebra that was ever foaled could boast the stripes she wore | R |
Her ears were white her legs were green her tail was fiery red | S |
And as he gazed upon her then I can't tell what he said | S |
George W. Doneghy
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