The Story Of The Man That Went Out Shooting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFFGGHH IIJJKKCC LLMM NNOOCCPPQQ| This is the man that shoots the hares | A |
| This is the coat he always wears | A |
| With game bag powder horn and gun | B |
| He's going out to have some fun | B |
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| He finds it hard without a pair | C |
| Of spectacles to shoot the hare | C |
| The hare sits snug in leaves and grass | D |
| And laughs to see the green man pass | D |
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| Now as the sun grew very hot | E |
| And he a heavy gun had got | E |
| He lay down underneath a tree | F |
| And went to sleep as you may see | F |
| And while he slept like any top | G |
| The little hare came hop hop hop | G |
| Took gun and spectacles and then | H |
| On her hind legs went off again | H |
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| The green man wakes and sees her place | I |
| The spectacles upon her face | I |
| And now she's trying all she can | J |
| To shoot the sleepy green coat man | J |
| He cries and screams and runs away | K |
| The hare runs after him all day | K |
| And hears him call out everywhere | C |
| Help Fire Help The Hare The Hare | C |
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| At last he stumbled at the well | L |
| Head over ears and in he fell | L |
| The hare stopped short took aim and hark | M |
| Bang went the gun she missed her mark | M |
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| The poor man's wife was drinking up | N |
| Her coffee in her coffee cup | N |
| The gun shot cup and saucer through | O |
| Oh dear cried she what shall I do | O |
| There lived close by the cottage there | C |
| The hare's own child the little hare | C |
| And while she stood upon her toes | P |
| The coffee fell and burned her nose | P |
| Oh dear she cried with spoon in hand | Q |
| Such fun I do not understand | Q |
Heinrich Hoffmann
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