The Orange Bears Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHHIJKLGG GMNO C| The Orange bears with soft friendly eyes | A |
| Who played with me when I was ten | B |
| Christ before I'd left home they'd had | C |
| Their paws smashed in the rolls their backs | D |
| Seared by hot slag their soft trusting | E |
| Bellies kicked in their tongues ripped | F |
| Out and I went down through the woods | G |
| To the smelly crick with Whitman | H |
| In the Haldeman Julius edition | H |
| And I just sat there worrying my thumbnail | I |
| Into the cover What did he know about | J |
| Orange bears with their coats all stunk up with soft coal | K |
| And the National Guard coming over | L |
| From Wheeling to stand in front of the millgates | G |
| With drawn bayonets jeering at the strikers | G |
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| I remember you would put daisies | G |
| On the windowsill at night and in | M |
| The morning they'd be so covered with soot | N |
| You couldn't tell what they were anymore | O |
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| A hell of a fat chance my orange bears had | C |
Kenneth Patchen
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