The Thought-reader Of Angels Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CDCDD EFEFF GHGHH IJJJJ KJKJJ LJLJJ KMKMM JJJJJ JJJJJ KNKNN JOJOO PJPJJ| We hev tumbled ez dust | A |
| Or ez worms of the yearth | B |
| Wot we looked for hez bust | A |
| We are objects of mirth | B |
| They have played us old Pards of the river they hev played us for all we was worth | B |
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| Was it euchre or draw | C |
| Cut us off in our bloom | D |
| Was it faro whose law | C |
| Is uncertain ez doom | D |
| Or an innocent Jack pot that opened was to us ez the jaws of the tomb | D |
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| It was nary It kem | E |
| With some sharps from the States | F |
| Ez folks sez All things kem | E |
| To the fellers ez waits | F |
| And we'd waited six months for that suthin' had me and Bill Nye in such straits | F |
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| And it kem It was small | G |
| It was dream like and weak | H |
| It wore store clothes that's all | G |
| That we knew so to speak | H |
| But it called itself Billson Thought Reader which ain't half a name for its cheek | H |
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| He could read wot you thought | I |
| And he knew wot you did | J |
| He could find things untaught | J |
| No matter whar hid | J |
| And he went to it blindfold and smiling being led by the hand like a kid | J |
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| Then I glanced at Bill Nye | K |
| And I sez without pride | J |
| You'll excuse us We've nigh | K |
| On to nothin' to hide | J |
| But if some gent will lend us a twenty we'll hide it whar folks shall decide | J |
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| It was Billson's own self | L |
| Who forked over the gold | J |
| With a smile Thar's the pelf | L |
| He remarked I make bold | J |
| To advance it and go twenty better that I'll find it without being told | J |
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| Then I passed it to Nye | K |
| Who repassed it to me | M |
| And we bandaged each eye | K |
| Of that Billson ez we | M |
| Softly dropped that coin in his coat pocket ez the hull crowd around us could see | M |
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| That was all He'd one hand | J |
| Locked in mine Then he groped | J |
| We could not understand | J |
| Why that minit Nye sloped | J |
| For we knew we'd the dead thing on Billson even more than we dreamed of or hoped | J |
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| For he stood thar in doubt | J |
| With his hand to his head | J |
| Then he turned and lit out | J |
| Through the door where Nye fled | J |
| Draggin' me and the rest of us arter while we larfed till we thought we was dead | J |
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| Till he overtook Nye | K |
| And went through him Words fail | N |
| For what follers Kin I | K |
| Paint our agonized wail | N |
| Ez he drew from Nye's pocket that twenty wot we sworn was in his own coat tail | N |
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| And it was But when found | J |
| It proved bogus and brass | O |
| And the question goes round | J |
| How the thing kem to pass | O |
| Or if passed woz it passed thar by William and I listens and echoes Alas | O |
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| For the days when the skill | P |
| Of the keerds was no blind | J |
| When no effort of will | P |
| Could beat four of a kind | J |
| When the thing wot you held in your hand Pard was worth more than the thing in your mind | J |
Bret Harte (francis)
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