The Hoss Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA BA CDE FBFB AGAG AHAH IJKJ ALAL MNON PA A AQAQ RHRH ASAS ATAA UVUV AAAA AWAX YZYA2The hoss he is a splendud beast | A |
He is man's friend as heaven desined | A |
And search the world from west to east | A |
No honester you'll ever find | A |
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Some calls the hoss 'a pore dumb brute ' | - |
And yit like Him who died fer you | B |
I say as I theyr charge refute | A |
'Fergive they know not what they do ' | - |
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No wiser animal makes tracks | C |
Upon these earthly shores and hence | D |
Arose the axium true as facts | E |
Extoled by all as 'Good hoss sense ' | - |
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The hoss is strong and knows his stren'th | F |
You hitch him up a time er two | B |
And lash him and he'll go his len'th | F |
And kick the dashboard out fer you | B |
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But treat him allus good and kind | A |
And never strike him with a stick | G |
Ner aggervate him and you'll find | A |
He'll never do a hostile trick | G |
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A hoss whose master tends him right | A |
And worters him with daily care | H |
Will do your biddin' with delight | A |
And act as docile as YOU air | H |
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He'll paw and prance to hear your praise | I |
Because he's learnt to love you well | J |
And though you can't tell what he says | K |
He'll nicker all he wants to tell | J |
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He knows you when you slam the gate | A |
At early dawn upon your way | L |
Unto the barn and snorts elate | A |
To git his corn er oats er hay | L |
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He knows you as the orphant knows | M |
The folks that loves her like theyr own | N |
And raises her and finds her clothes | O |
And schools her tel a womern grown | N |
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I claim no hoss will harm a man | P |
Ner kick ner run away cavort | A |
Stump suck er balk er 'catamaran ' | - |
Ef you'll jest treat him as you ort | A |
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But when I see the beast abused | A |
And clubbed around as I've saw some | Q |
I want to see his owner noosed | A |
And jest yanked up like Absolum | Q |
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Of course they's differunce in stock | R |
A hoss that has a little yeer | H |
And slender build and shaller hock | R |
Can beat his shadder mighty near | H |
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Whilse one that's thick in neck and chist | A |
And big in leg and full in flank | S |
That tries to race I still insist | A |
He'll have to take the second rank | S |
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And I have jest laid back and laughed | A |
And rolled and wallered in the grass | T |
At fairs to see some heavy draft | A |
Lead out at FIRST yit come in LAST | A |
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Each hoss has his appinted place | U |
The heavy hoss should plow the soil | V |
The blooded racer he must race | U |
And win big wages fer his toil | V |
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I never bet ner never wrought | A |
Upon my feller man to bet | A |
And yit at times I've often thought | A |
Of my convictions with regret | A |
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I bless the hoss from hoof to head | A |
From head to hoof and tale to mane | W |
I bless the hoss as I have said | A |
From head to hoof and back again | X |
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I love my God the first of all | Y |
Then Him that perished on the cross | Z |
And next my wife and then I fall | Y |
Down on my knees and love the hoss | A2 |
James Whitcomb Riley
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