Toboggan

Benjamin Franklin King 1857 (St. Joseph, Michigan) – 1894 (Bowling Green, Kentucky)



1     Down from the hills and over the snow
2     Swift as a meteor's flash we go,
3         Toboggan! Toboggan! Toboggan!
4     Down from the hills with our senses lost,
5     Jealous of cheeks that are kissed by the frost,
6         Toboggan! Toboggan! Toboggan!

7     With snow piled high on housetop and hill,
8     O'er frozen rivulet, river, and rill,
9     Clad in her jacket of sealskin and fur,
10   Down from the hills I'm sliding with her,
11       Toboggan! Toboggan! Toboggan!

12   Down from the hills, what an awful speed!
13   As if on the back of a frightened steed,
14       Toboggan! Toboggan! Toboggan!
15   Down from the hills at the rise of the moon,
16   Merrily singing the toboggan tune,
17       "Toboggan! Toboggan! Toboggan!"

18   Down from the hills like an arrow we fly,
19   Or a comet that whizzes along through the sky;
20   Down from the hills! Oh, isn't it grand!
21   Clasping your best winter girl by the hand,
22       Toboggan! Toboggan! Toboggan!

23   Down from the hills and both growing old,
24   Down from the hills we are nearing the fold:
25       Toboggan! Toboggan! Toboggan!
26   Close to the homestead we hear the ring
27   Of children's voices that cheerily sing,
28       "Toboggan! Toboggan! Toboggan!"

29   Down from the hills and we hear the chime
30   Of bells that are ringing out Old Father Time;
31   Down from the hills we are riding away,
32   Nearing the life with its endless day;
33       Toboggan! Toboggan! Toboggan!

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AABCCB DDEEB FFBGGB HHIIB JJBKKB LLMMB
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,456
Words 256
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 6, 5, 6, 5, 6, 5

Benjamin Franklin King

Benjamin Franklin King Jr. was an American humorist and poet whose work published under the names Ben King or the pseudonym Bow Hackley achieved notability in his lifetime and afterwards. According to a short biography by Opie Read, as a child he was reputed a piano prodigy; in adult life he was by many deemed a failure for his lack of business instinct. But as "a poet, a gentle satirist and a humorist of the highest order, he achieved notability" in his short life for a series of newspaper published poems. more…

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