Dan Wasn-t Thrown From His Horse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHAH AICI JKFK LMAM| THEY SAY he was thrown and run over | A |
| But that is sheer nonsense of course | B |
| I taught him to ride when a kiddy | C |
| And Dan wasn t thrown from his horse | B |
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| The horse that Dan rode was a devil | D |
| The kind of a brute I despise | E |
| With nasty white eyelashes fringing | F |
| A pair of red sinister eyes | E |
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| And a queerly shaped spot on his forehead | G |
| Where I put a conical ball | H |
| The day that he murdered Dan Denver | A |
| The pluckiest rider of all | H |
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| Twas after the races were over | A |
| And Duggan a Talbragar man | I |
| And two of the Denvers and Barney | C |
| Were trying a gallop with Dan | I |
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| Dan s horse on a sudden got vicious | J |
| And reared up an plunged in the race | K |
| Then threw back his head hitting Dan like | F |
| A sledge hammer full in the face | K |
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| Dan stopped and got down stood a moment | L |
| Then fell to the ground like a stone | M |
| And died about ten minutes after | A |
| But they re liars who say he was thrown | M |
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