Fight With A Bear In The Northwest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGG HHIIJJKKLLGG MMNOCCPPQQRR| Two youths employed at the fur fort | A |
| Resolved to have half day of sport | A |
| From Jasper House in the far north | B |
| For game they joyous issued forth | B |
| The factor of the Hudson Bay | C |
| Granted them a few hours play | C |
| And it was in cold winter time | D |
| When thick on lake was glassy rime | D |
| But beneath o'er all their route | E |
| They saw below big speckled trout | F |
| With hatchet ice they did clear | G |
| And the beauteous trout did spear | G |
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| Soon bear they saw and youths did skate | H |
| Resolved for to seal his fate | H |
| A pistol shot made bruin roar | I |
| And from him trickled drops of gore | I |
| They round him skate and fresh blood drew | J |
| When they at him the hatchet threw | J |
| He first chased one and then the other | K |
| For men on skates did him bother | K |
| But the bold Scottish lad McBeth | L |
| Alas he nearly met his death | L |
| When he so boldly did press near | G |
| To probe with the sharp fish spear | G |
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| They knew their game was no trifle | M |
| So they secured a trusty rifle | M |
| Returning he had fled to wood | N |
| But they traced him with his blood | O |
| They saw the elder bushes sway | C |
| While he did force through them his way | C |
| They skated swiftly o'er the ice | P |
| And were near brushwood in a trice | P |
| Full soon the savage beast is slain | Q |
| With rifle bullet in his brain | Q |
| And now these hunters do take pride | R |
| In skin as large as Buffalo hide | R |
James Mcintyre
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