The Things You Can't Forget Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDAA EEFFGGBBHH IIJJKLMMAA NNEEOOPPAA| They ain't much seen from day to day | A |
| The big elm tree across the way | A |
| The church spire an' the meetin' place | B |
| Lit up by many a friendly face | B |
| You pass 'em by a dozen times | C |
| An' never think o' them in rhymes | C |
| Or fit for poet's singin' Yet | D |
| They're all the things you can't forget | D |
| An' they're the things you'll miss some day | A |
| If ever you should go away | A |
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| The people here ain't much to see | E |
| Jes' common folks like you an' me | E |
| Doin' the ordinary tasks | F |
| Which life of everybody asks | F |
| Old Dr Green still farin' 'round | G |
| To where his patients can be found | G |
| An' Parson Hill serene o' face | B |
| Carryin' God's message every place | B |
| An' Jim who keeps the grocery store | H |
| Yet they are folks you'd hunger for | H |
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| They seem so plain when close to view | I |
| Bill Barker an' his brother too | I |
| The Jacksons men of higher rank | J |
| Because they chance to run the bank | J |
| Yet friends to every one round here | K |
| Quiet an' kindly an' sincere | L |
| Not much to sing about or praise | M |
| Livin' their lives in modest ways | M |
| Yet in your memory they'd stay | A |
| If ever you should go away | A |
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| These are things an' these the men | N |
| Some day you'll long to see again | N |
| Now it's so near you scarcely see | E |
| The beauty o' that big elm tree | E |
| But some day later on you will | O |
| An' wonder if it's standin' still | O |
| An' if the birds return to sing | P |
| An' make their nests there every spring | P |
| Mebbe you scorn them now but they | A |
| Will bring you back again some day | A |
Edgar Albert Guest
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