A Pastoral Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GEHE IJEJ KLHL MENE EGEG IJOJ GEHE| Just as the sun was setting | A |
| Back of the Western hills | B |
| Grandfather stood by the window | C |
| Eating the last of his pills | B |
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| And Grandmother by the cupboard | D |
| Knitting heard him say | E |
| I ought to have went to the village | F |
| To fetch some more pills today | E |
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| Then Grandmother snuffled a teardrop | G |
| And said It is jest like I suz | E |
| T' th' parson Grandfather's liver | H |
| Ain't what it used to was | E |
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| It's gittin' torpid and dormant | I |
| It don't function like of old | J |
| And even them pills he swallers | E |
| Don't seem no more t' catch hold | J |
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| They used to grab it and shake it | K |
| And joggle it up and down | L |
| And turn dear Grandfather yaller | H |
| Except when they turned him brown | L |
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| I remember when we was married | M |
| His liver was lively and gay | E |
| A kickin' an' rippin' an' givin' | N |
| Dear Ezry new pains ev'ry day | E |
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| It used to turn clear over backwards | E |
| An' palpitate wuss'n a pump | G |
| An' give him the janders and yallers | E |
| An' bounce around thumpty thump | G |
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| But now it is torpid and dormant | I |
| And painless and quiet and cold | J |
| Ah me all's so peaceful an' quiet | O |
| Since Grandfather's liver 's grown old | J |
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| Then Grandmother wiped a new teardrop | G |
| And sighed It is just like I suz | E |
| T' th' parson Grandfather's liver | H |
| Ain't what it used to was | E |
Ellis Parker Butler
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