Gordon Cumming - The Lion Hunter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHDIJEKLMNHOOJ PQCPRSTU DDVVII NIW| Some thirty years ago in conversation with an old sea | A |
| captain who had visited or voyaged to all quarters of the | B |
| globe he was denouncing fiercely the degeneracy of these | C |
| costermonger times He said there was a book in our | D |
| town library which was a tissue of falsehood from begin | E |
| ning to end and that there never existed such a man as | F |
| Gordon Cumming the Lion Hunter I told the old gen | G |
| tleman that I had seen the Lion Hunter hundreds of | H |
| times and conversed with him in the woods of Aylter | D |
| and that be was a descendant of the Royal Comyn one | I |
| of whom was killed by King Robert the Bruce and that | J |
| I had seen the magnificent person of Gordon Cumming in | E |
| the garb of old Gaul successfully punish a huge prize | K |
| fighter who kept grossly insulting him during the excite | L |
| ment of a general election when Cumming's uncle | M |
| Major Cumming Bruce was running for member this | N |
| Major being father in law to Lord Elgin formerly Gov | H |
| ernor of Canada I also told him that Hugh Millar was | O |
| a warm friend of the Lion Hunter's mother as she was | O |
| distinguished both as a geologist and a botanist and that | J |
| Livingstone the great traveller was a great admirer and | P |
| intimate friend of the Hunter After his return to | Q |
| Britain he exhibited himself and his magnificent trophies | C |
| throughout all the cities and towns of Britain and Ireland | P |
| His own noble figure in full Highland costume was perhaps no | R |
| insignificant part of the exhibition Barnum afterwards | S |
| secured the noble specimens of hides and horns and monstrous | T |
| tusks for his New York museum | U |
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| Now the youth in fertile Moray | D |
| Do in Gordon Cumming glory | D |
| Bold lion hunter first who made | V |
| With Africa tribes successful trade | V |
| First in those wilds to fire a gun | I |
| While he the mighty trophies won | I |
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| The moat celebrated lady traveller in Britain is Miss | N |
| Cumming a niece of the Lion Hunter She has written | I |
| several volumes of her travels in distant lands | W |
James Mcintyre
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