Fighting For Home Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD CCBB EEFF| A hawk while soaring on the wing | A |
| O'er a tiny sparkling spring | A |
| Beheld a sleek and beauteous mink | B |
| Was enjoying a bath and drink | B |
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| And though the hawk was bent on slaughter | C |
| The mink was more at home on water | C |
| And it is strange this curious quarrel | D |
| All occurred in a sunk barrel | D |
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| In the Township of Nissouri | C |
| There the hawk it came to sorrow | C |
| But it strove often for to sink | B |
| In vain it strove to drown the mink | B |
| - | |
| But mink it did successful balk | E |
| All the attacks were made by hawk | E |
| The bird was drenched it could not fly | F |
| And ne'er again it soared on high | F |
James Mcintyre
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