Lines On A Canadian Hunter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDE FFDB GGBB HHDD IJKE LLDDOf Kentucky's great hunter bold | A |
Old Daniel Boon oft tales are told | A |
Of wild beasts he had no fear | B |
But dangers loved that pioneer | B |
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Canada hath 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 |
Hs 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 Boon | 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 ottar | D |
James Mcintyre
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