Bear Hunt Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF EEGG HHII EEHH HHEE JJKK| Two youths came over from York state | A |
| Bill Brown and Tom Dawes his mate | A |
| For many months they were wishing | B |
| The sport of hunting and of fishing | B |
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| They rowed along the lake in punt | C |
| When tired of fishing they would hunt | C |
| At river's mouth they caught fine trout | D |
| In woods close by they saw bear's snout | D |
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| In front of her play little chubs | E |
| Fat and slick her darling cubs | E |
| Kind thoughts in their breasts they smother | F |
| And cruelly they shoot the mother | F |
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| And bullet fearful tore her jaws | E |
| A bloody wound but with her paws | E |
| Erect in air an awful sight | G |
| She was prepared for her young to fight | G |
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| But this did not daunt bold Bill Brown | H |
| With club he tried to knock her down | H |
| But she gave him an awful hug | I |
| With paws she at him fierce did tug | I |
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| He would been smothered but for Dawes | E |
| Who rescued him from her great paws | E |
| With club he knocked her on the crown | H |
| And thus he saved the life of Brown | H |
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| She rose again with savage frown | H |
| And quickly broke two ribs for Brown | H |
| His clothes were all torn with her claws | E |
| She smeared with blood both Brown and Dawes | E |
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| But Dawes now quick doth end the strife | J |
| By stabbing her with hunting knife | J |
| And now around this hunter bold | K |
| His bear skin coat keeps out the cold | K |
James Mcintyre
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