Canadian Hunter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDE FFDB GGBB HHDD IJKE LLDE| Of Kentucky's great hunter bold | A |
| Old Daniel Boone oft tales are told | A |
| Of wild beasts he had no fear | B |
| But dangers loved that pioneer | B |
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| Canada has hunters many | C |
| Yet perhaps there is not any | C |
| For skill and boldness can compare | D |
| With our own Daniel Hebner | E |
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| In youth he was both tall and strong | F |
| And supple as a willow thong | F |
| He never fled from savage bear | D |
| Though bruin on hind legs would rear | B |
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| In hunting mink or fox or coon | G |
| He was a second Daniel Boone | G |
| His rifle oft brought down the deer | B |
| Which to his table brought good cheer | B |
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| But through his life his highest aim | H |
| Was to kill the savage game | H |
| To track the wild cat to its lair | D |
| And see its eyes so fiercely glare | D |
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| But he oft longs for a cut ham | I |
| Sweet as from bear near to Putnam | J |
| For he waged his fiercest war | K |
| In big swamp of Dorchester | E |
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| Now in the winter Dan he rides | L |
| Warm 'mong his bear and coon skin hides | L |
| He lets the younger men now snare | D |
| The beaver muskrat and otter | E |
James Mcintyre
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