When Gassy Thompson Struck It Rich Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE DGHI JKLK MNON PQRQ STUT VWXW YZLZ| He paid a Swede twelve bits an hour | A |
| Just to invent a fancy style | B |
| To spread the celebration paint | C |
| So it would show at least a mile | B |
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| Some things they did I will not tell | D |
| They're not quite proper for a rhyme | E |
| But I WILL say Yim Yonson Swede | F |
| Did sure invent a sunflower time | E |
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| One thing they did that I can tell | D |
| And not offend the ladies here | G |
| They took a goat to Simp's Saloon | H |
| And made it take a bath in beer | I |
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| That ENTERprise took MANagement | J |
| They broke a wash tub in the fray | K |
| But mister goat was bathed all right | L |
| And bar keep Simp was too they say | K |
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| They wore girls' pink straw hats to church | M |
| And clucked like hens They surely did | N |
| They bought two HOtel frying pans | O |
| And in them down the mountain slid | N |
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| They went to Denver in good clothes | P |
| And kept Burt's grill room wide awake | Q |
| And cut about like jumping jacks | R |
| And ordered seven dollar steak | Q |
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| They had the waiters whirling round | S |
| Just sweeping up the smear and smash | T |
| They tried to buy the State house flag | U |
| They showed the Janitor the cash | T |
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| And old Dan Tucker on a toot | V |
| Or John Paul Jones before the breeze | W |
| Or Indians eating fat fried dog | X |
| Were not as happy babes as these | W |
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| One morn in hills near Cripple creek | Y |
| With cheerful swears the two awoke | Z |
| The Swede had twenty cents all right | L |
| But Gassy Thompson was clean broke | Z |
Vachel Lindsay
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