Sary "fixes Up" Things Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEEEFFEE GGHHCCII HHJJCCEE| Oh yes we've be'n fixin' up some sence we sold that piece o' groun' | A |
| Fer a place to put a golf lynx to them crazy dudes from town | A |
| Anyway they laughed like crazy when I had it specified | B |
| Ef they put a golf lynx on it thet they'd haf to keep him tied | B |
| But they paid the price all reg'lar an' then Sary says to me | C |
| Now we're goin' to fix the parlor up an' settin' room says she | C |
| Fer she 'lowed she'd been a scrimpin' an' a scrapin' all her life | D |
| An' she meant fer once to have things good as Cousin Ed'ard's wife | D |
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| Well we went down to the city an' she bought the blamedest mess | E |
| An' them clerks there must 'a' took her fer a' Astoroid I guess | E |
| Fer they showed her fancy bureaus which they said was shiffoneers | E |
| An' some more they said was dressers an' some curtains called porteers | E |
| An' she looked at that there furnicher an' felt them curtains' heft | F |
| Then she sailed in like a cyclone an' she bought 'em right an' left | F |
| An' she picked a Bress'ls carpet thet was flowered like Cousin Ed's | E |
| But she drawed the line com pletely when we got to foldin' beds | E |
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| Course she said 't 'u'd make the parlor lots more roomier she s'posed | G |
| But she 'lowed she'd have a bedstid thet was shore to stay un closed | G |
| An' she stopped right there an' told us sev'ral tales of folks she'd read | H |
| Bein' overtook in slumber by the fatal foldin' bed | H |
| Not ef it wuz set in di'mon's Nary foldin' bed fer me | C |
| I ain't goin' to start fer glory in a rabbit trap says she | C |
| When the time comes I'll be ready an' a waitin' but ez yet | I |
| I shan't go to sleep a thinkin' that I've got the triggers set | I |
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| Well sir shore as yo''re a livin' after all thet Sary said | H |
| 'Fore we started home that evenin' she hed bought a foldin' bed | H |
| An' she's put it in the parlor where it adds a heap o' style | J |
| An' we're sleepin' in the settin' room at present fer a while | J |
| Sary still maintains it's han'some an' them city folks'll see | C |
| That we're posted on the fashions when they visit us says she | C |
| But it plagues her some to tell her ef it ain't no other use | E |
| We can set it fer the golf lynx ef he ever sh'u'd get loose | E |
Albert Bigelow Paine
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