A Liz Town Humorist Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCBDE DFF BBGH IJJIKKL GHMNBBINNI| Settin' round the stove last night | A |
| Down at Wess's store was me | B |
| And Mart Strimples Tunk and White | A |
| And Doc Bills and two er three | B |
| Fellers o' the Mudsock tribe | C |
| No use tryin' to describe | C |
| And says Doc he says says he | B |
| 'Talkin' 'bout good things to eat | D |
| Ripe mushmillon's hard to beat ' | E |
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| I chawed on And Mart he 'lowed | D |
| Wortermillon beat the mush | F |
| 'Red ' he says 'and juicy Hush | F |
| I'll jes' leave it to the crowd ' | - |
| Then a Mudsock chap says he | B |
| 'Punkin's good enough fer me | B |
| Punkin pies I mean ' he says | G |
| Them beats millons What say Wess | H |
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| I chawed on And Wess says 'Well | I |
| You jes' fetch that wife of mine | J |
| All yer wortermillon rine | J |
| And she'll bile it down a spell | I |
| In with sorghum I suppose | K |
| And what else Lord only knows | K |
| But I'm here to tell all hands | L |
| Them p'serves meets my demands ' | - |
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| I chawed on And White he says | G |
| 'Well I'll jes' stand in with Wess | H |
| I'm no hog ' And Tunk says 'I | M |
| Guess I'll pastur' out on pie | N |
| With the Mudsock boys ' says he | B |
| 'Now what's yourn ' he says to me | B |
| I chawed on fer quite a spell | I |
| Then I speaks up slow and dry | N |
| Jes' tobacker ' I says I | N |
| And you'd ort o' heerd 'em yell | I |
James Whitcomb Riley
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