Jabed Meeker, Humorist Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFG HIJJKK LLMMNN OOEELLPPLLLLQQLL KK| Twain Oh yes I've heard Mark Twain | A |
| Heard him down to Pleasant Plain | A |
| Funny Yes I guess so Folks | B |
| Seemed to laugh loud at his jokes | B |
| Laughed to beat the band but I | C |
| Couldn't rightly make out why | C |
| Guess his humor ain't refined | D |
| Quite enough to suit my mind | D |
| Mark's all right right clever speaker | E |
| But he can't touch Jabed Meeker | E |
| And one thing that makes it queer | F |
| Is that Jabed lives right here | G |
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| You ain't met him Son you've missed | H |
| The most funniest humorist | I |
| I've met with in my born days | J |
| Funniest talker anyways | J |
| When it comes to repartee | K |
| That's the humor catches me | K |
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| Like a specimen Huh Well | L |
| Take for instance his umbrell | L |
| Wouldn't think until he spoke | M |
| He could turn that to a joke | M |
| Mark Twain couldn't bet you that | N |
| That's where Meeker beats Mark flat | N |
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| Just imagine three or four | O |
| Fellers in Jim Beemer's store | O |
| 'Long comes Meeker and some feller | E |
| Says See Meeker's bum umbreller | E |
| Quick as lightning Meeker 'd yell | L |
| Don't you guy my bumberell | L |
| Where's the feller dares to hoot | P |
| At this sping spang bumbershoot | P |
| Show me some one dares to call | L |
| Bad names at my bumbersoll | L |
| Right like that Right off the reel | L |
| Say you'd ought to heard us squeal | L |
| Then before we'd got our breath | Q |
| Meeker solemn sad as death | Q |
| Says Stand up there 'gainst that wall | L |
| Para bumber shooter soll | L |
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| Twain All right But just give me | K |
| Some one slick at repartee | K |
Ellis Parker Butler
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