Bag Your Game Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKBKB LMLCFNFN OPOPQOQO RSRSOOOO| Two men well versed in use of arms | A |
| Set out 'tis said in search of game | B |
| Each felt that hunting had its charms | A |
| Yet widely differed they in aim | B |
| Both felt their need of wholesome food | C |
| For present use and winter's store | D |
| But one was of a careless mood | C |
| Than the day's sport he asked no more | D |
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| No game he bagged from morn till night | E |
| Content to show his master skill | F |
| In hitting every bird at sight | E |
| And shooting down the deer at will | F |
| Grand sport he deemed it day by day | G |
| As in the tangled forest brake | H |
| He brought the bounding stag to bay | G |
| Or shot the wood duck in the lake | H |
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| As he each night to home returned | I |
| He sang the pleasure of the chase | J |
| But had not yet the lesson learned | I |
| That he was loser in the race | J |
| Yet when sat in the winter's cold | K |
| And game had fled to warmer clime | B |
| He had no stock to sell for gold | K |
| Nor food and past his harvest time | B |
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| The chase the other prized as well | L |
| But bagged his game as best he could | M |
| And thus had lots of pelts to sell | L |
| For self and wife the choicest food | C |
| In the pursuit of game a thrill | F |
| Of keenest joy shot through his heart | N |
| But joy complete he knew not till | F |
| He went his way joy to impart | N |
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| While he with wife and children shared | O |
| The roasted duck and venison | P |
| He felt he as a king had fared | O |
| And though of earth a denizen | P |
| Such food would give both strength and cheer | Q |
| To meet lifes daily toil aright | O |
| And winter months he did not fear | Q |
| His larder filled and prospect bright | O |
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| The search for Truth with pleasure thrills | R |
| To find it we our end attain | S |
| Possessed new joy the spirit fills | R |
| And to retain is highest gain | S |
| The pleasure of pursuit is lost | O |
| If truth itself is not secured | O |
| O buy the truth at any cost | O |
| And from your aim be not allured | O |
Joseph Horatio Chant
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