Our Two Opinions Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFGHDED IJIJKDED EDEDLEDE MIMINDED| Us two wuz boys when we fell out | A |
| Nigh to the age uv my youngest now | B |
| Don't rec'lect what't wuz about | A |
| Some small deeff'rence I'll allow | B |
| Lived next neighbors twenty years | C |
| A hatin' each other me 'nd Jim | D |
| He havin' his opinyin uv me | E |
| 'Nd I havin' my opinyin uv him | D |
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| Grew up together 'nd would n't speak | F |
| Courted sisters 'nd marr'd 'em too | G |
| Tended same meetin' house oncet a week | F |
| A hatin' each other through 'nd through | G |
| But when Abe Linkern asked the West | H |
| F'r soldiers we answered me 'nd Jim | D |
| He havin' his opinyin uv me | E |
| 'Nd I havin' my opinyin uv him | D |
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| But down in Tennessee one night | I |
| Ther' wuz sound uv firin' fur away | J |
| 'Nd the sergeant allowed ther' 'd be a fight | I |
| With the Johnnie Rebs some time nex' day | J |
| 'Nd as I wuz thinkin' uv Lizzie 'nd home | K |
| Jim stood afore me long 'nd slim | D |
| He havin' his opinyin uv me | E |
| 'Nd I havin' my opinyin uv him | D |
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| Seemed like we knew there wuz goin' to be | E |
| Serious trouble f'r me 'nd him | D |
| Us two shuck hands did Jim 'nd me | E |
| But never a word from me or Jim | D |
| He went his way 'nd I went mine | L |
| 'Nd into the battle's roar went we | E |
| I havin' my opinyin uv Jim | D |
| 'Nd he havin' his opinyin uv me | E |
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| Jim never come back from the war again | M |
| But I ha' n't forgot that last last night | I |
| When waitin' f'r orders us two men | M |
| Made up 'nd shuck hands afore the fight | I |
| 'Nd after it all it's soothin' to know | N |
| That here I be 'nd yonder's Jim | D |
| He havin' his opinyin uv me | E |
| 'Nd I havin' my opinyin uv him | D |
Eugene Field
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