Fight With A Bear Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FFGGHHIIJKLL MMNNIIOOPPLQ NNRRSS TTUULL VDNNFFWWXYQQ HHZZA2A2B2B2C2C2QQ| The following appeared in Truth in the form of a prose tale of | A |
| considerable length We have concentrated the essence | B |
| thereof into the few verses below It is a tale of the | C |
| Canadian North West during the times of the Hudson | D |
| Bay Company's rule | E |
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| Two youths employed at the fur fort | F |
| Resolved to have half day of sport | F |
| From Jasper House in the far north | G |
| For game they joyous issued forth | G |
| The factor of the Hudson Bay | H |
| Granted them a few hours' play | H |
| And it was in cold winter time | I |
| When thick on lake was glassy rime | I |
| But beneath o'er all their route | J |
| They saw below big speckled trout | K |
| With hatchet ice they did clear | L |
| And the beauteous trout did spear | L |
| - | |
| For they were longing for a dish | M |
| Of this sweet and savory fish | M |
| And they caught many too with bait | N |
| For in the day it was not late | N |
| But it was cloudy with snow storm | I |
| Yet they saw the noble form | I |
| While the hurricane did blow | O |
| Of a fine noble buffalo | O |
| So they resolved to have a treat | P |
| Of the delicious buffalo meat | P |
| But he did on his haunches rear | L |
| To their surprise it was a bear | Q |
| - | |
| The lake being smooth the youths did skate | N |
| Resolved for to seal his fate | N |
| A pistol shot made bruin roar | R |
| And from him trickled drops of gore | R |
| They round him skate and fresh blood drew | S |
| When they at him the hatchet threw | S |
| - | |
| He chased one and then the other | T |
| For men on skates did him bother | T |
| But the bold Scottish lad McBeath | U |
| Alas he nearly met his death | U |
| When he so boldly did press near | L |
| To probe him with the sharp fish spear | L |
| - | |
| For with fell swoop the paws of bruin | V |
| To him they almost did bring ruin | D |
| But he so dexterously did skate | N |
| That he escaped such horrid fate | N |
| And now they skated back to fort | F |
| For aid for to renew the sport | F |
| They knew their game was no trifle | W |
| So they secured a trusty rifle | W |
| Returning he had fled to wood | X |
| But they tracked him with his blood | Y |
| For they did not yet despair | Q |
| But that they would capture bear | Q |
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| They saw the elder bushes sway | H |
| While he did force through them his way | H |
| And heard the brushwood loudly snap | Z |
| Where he went through he left a gap | Z |
| They skated swiftly o 'er the ice | A2 |
| And were near brushwood in a trice | A2 |
| Full soon the savage beast is slain | B2 |
| With rifle bullet in his brain | B2 |
| And now these hunters do take pride | C2 |
| In skin as large as buffalo hide | C2 |
| For Indian stripped the skin of bear | Q |
| And left the carcass in his lair | Q |
James Mcintyre
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