A Dost O' Blues Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEFG HIHIJAJA FIFIKHLH MFMFD IF FHFNDFFF| I' got no patience with blues at all | A |
| And I ust to kindo talk | B |
| Aginst 'em and claim 'tel along last Fall | A |
| They was none in the fambly stock | C |
| But a nephew of mine from Eelinoy | D |
| That visited us last year | E |
| He kindo convinct me differunt | F |
| While he was a stayin' here | G |
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| Frum ever' which way that blues is from | H |
| They'd tackle him ever' ways | I |
| They'd come to him in the night and come | H |
| On Sundays and rainy days | I |
| They'd tackle him in corn plantin' time | J |
| And in harvest and airly Fall | A |
| But a dose 't of blues in the wintertime | J |
| He 'lowed was the worst of all | A |
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| Said all diseases that ever he had | F |
| The mumps er the rheumatiz | I |
| Er ever' other day aigger's bad | F |
| Purt' nigh as anything is | I |
| Er a cyarbuncle say on the back of his neck | K |
| Er a felon on his thumb | H |
| But you keep the blues away from him | L |
| And all o' the rest could come | H |
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| And he'd moan 'They's nary a leaf below | M |
| Ner a spear o' grass in sight | F |
| And the whole wood pile's clean under snow | M |
| And the days is dark as night | F |
| You can't go out ner you can't stay in | D |
| Lay down stand up ner set ' | - |
| And a tetch o' regular tyfoid blues | I |
| Would double him jest clean shet | F |
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| I writ his parents a postal kyard | F |
| He could stay 'tel Spring time come | H |
| And Aprile first as I rickollect | F |
| Was the day we shipped him home | N |
| Most o' his relatives sence then | D |
| Has either give up er quit | F |
| Er jest died off but I understand | F |
| He's the same old color yit | F |
James Whitcomb Riley
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