The Ox Tamer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEFGHIJFKDFLLKKM KNKIOFPDQRKSA| IN a faraway northern county in the placid pastoral region | A |
| Lives my farmer friend the theme of my recitative a famous Tamer of | B |
| Oxen | A |
| There they bring him the three year olds and the four year olds to | C |
| break them | D |
| He will take the wildest steer in the world and break him and tame | E |
| him | F |
| He will go fearless without any whip where the young bullock | G |
| chafes up and down the yard | H |
| The bullock's head tosses restless high in the air with raging eyes | I |
| Yet see you how soon his rage subsides how soon this Tamer tames | J |
| him | F |
| See you on the farms hereabout a hundred oxen young and old and | K |
| he is the man who has tamed them | D |
| They all know him all are affectionate to him | F |
| See you some are such beautiful animals so lofty looking | L |
| Some are buff color'd some mottled one has a white line running | L |
| along his back some are brindled | K |
| Some have wide flaring horns a good sign See you the bright | K |
| hides | M |
| See the two with stars on their foreheads See the round bodies and | K |
| broad backs | N |
| See how straight and square they stand on their legs See what | K |
| fine sagacious eyes | I |
| See how they watch their Tamer they wish him near them how they | O |
| turn to look after him | F |
| What yearning expression how uneasy they are when he moves away from | P |
| them | D |
| Now I marvel what it can be he appears to them books politics | Q |
| poems depart all else departs | R |
| I confess I envy only his fascination my silent illiterate friend | K |
| Whom a hundred oxen love there in his life on farms | S |
| In the northern county far in the placid pastoral region | A |
Walt Whitman
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