A Barefoot Boy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDCDDC| A barefoot boy I mark him at his play | A |
| For May is here once more and so is he | B |
| His dusty trousers rolled half to the knee | B |
| And his bare ankles grimy too as they | A |
| Cross hatchings of the nettle in array | A |
| Of feverish stripes hint vividly to me | B |
| Of woody pathways winding endlessly | B |
| Along the creek where even yesterday | A |
| He plunged his shrinking body gasped and shook | C |
| Yet called the water 'warm ' with never lack | D |
| Of joy And so half enviously I look | C |
| Upon this graceless barefoot and his track | D |
| His toe stubbed ay his big toe nail knocked back | D |
| Like unto the clasp of an old pocketbook | C |
James Whitcomb Riley
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