The Cow-juice Cure Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDDEEFG HHIJIKKBBBBLL GGBBKK MMNNOOPP QQRRBB QQSSTT| The clover was in blossom an' the year was at the June | A |
| When Flap jack Billy hit the town likewise O'Flynn's saloon | A |
| The frost was on the fodder an' the wind was growin' keen | B |
| When Billy got to seein' snakes in Sullivan's shebeen | B |
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| Then in meandered Deep hole Dan once comrade of the cup | C |
| Oh Billy for the love of Mike why don't ye sober up | C |
| I've got the gorgus recipay 'tis smooth an' slick as silk | D |
| Jest quit yer strangle holt on hooch an' irrigate with milk | D |
| Lackteeal flooid is the lubrication you require | E |
| Yer nervus frame up's like a bunch of snarled piano wire | E |
| You want to get it coated up with addypose tishoo | F |
| So's it will work elastic like an' milk's the dope for you | G |
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| Well Billy was complyable an' in a month it's strange | H |
| That cow juice seemed to oppyrate a most amazin' change | H |
| Call up the water wagon Dan an' book my seat sez he | I |
| 'Tis mighty queer sez Deep hole Dan 'twas just the same with | J |
| me | I |
| They shanghaied little Tim O'Shane they cached him safe away | K |
| An' though he objurgated some they cured him night an' day | K |
| An' pretty soon there came the change amazin' to explain | B |
| I'll never take another drink sez Timothy O'Shane | B |
| They tried it out on Spike Muldoon that toper of renown | B |
| They put it over Grouch McGraw the terror of the town | B |
| They roped in tanks from far and near an' every test was sure | L |
| An' like a flame there ran the fame of Deep hole's Cow juice Cure | L |
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| It's mighty queer sez Deep hole Dan I'm puzzled through and through | G |
| It's only milk from Riley's ranch no other milk will do | G |
| An' it jest happened on that night with no predictive plan | B |
| He left some milk from Riley's ranch a settin' in a pan | B |
| An' picture his amazement when he poured that milk next day | K |
| There in the bottom of the pan a dozen colours lay | K |
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| Well what d'ye know 'bout that sez Dan Gosh ding my dasted eyes | M |
| We've been an' had the Gold Cure Bill an' none of us was wise | M |
| The milk's free millin' that's a cinch there's colours everywhere | N |
| Now let us figger this thing out how does the dust git there | N |
| Gold from the grass roots down' they say why Bill we've got it cold | O |
| Them cows what nibbles up the grass jest nibbles up the gold | O |
| We're blasted bloomin' millionaires dissemble an' lie low | P |
| We'll follow them gold bearin' cows an' prospect where they go | P |
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| An' so it came to pass fer weeks them miners might be found | Q |
| A sneakin' round on Riley's ranch an' snipin' at the ground | Q |
| Till even Riley stops an' stares an' presently allows | R |
| Them boys appear to take a mighty interest in cows | R |
| An' night an' day they shadowed each auriferous bovine | B |
| An' panned the grass roots on their trail yet nivver gold they seen | B |
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| An' all that season secret like they worked an' nothin' found | Q |
| An' there was colours in the milk but none was in the ground | Q |
| An' mighty desperate was they an' down upon their luck | S |
| When sudden inspirationlike the source of it they struck | S |
| An' where d'ye think they traced it to it grieves my heart to tell | T |
| In the black sand at the bottom of that wicked milkman's well | T |
Robert William Service
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