A Noted Traveler Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJKK AALLGGMMMMFNOOPPMMPP MMQQ| Even in such a scene of senseless play | A |
| The children were surprised one summer day | A |
| By a strange man who called across the fence | B |
| Inquiring for their father's residence | C |
| And being answered that this was the place | D |
| Opened the gate and with a radiant face | D |
| Came in and sat down with them in the shade | E |
| And waited till the absent father made | E |
| His noon appearance with a warmth and zest | F |
| That told he had no ordinary guest | F |
| In this man whose low spoken name he knew | G |
| At once demurring as the stranger drew | G |
| A stuffy notebook out and turned and set | H |
| A big fat finger on a page and let | H |
| The writing thereon testify instead | I |
| Of further speech And as the father read | I |
| All silently the curious children took | J |
| Exacting inventory both of book | J |
| And man He wore a long napped white fur hat | K |
| Pulled firmly on his head and under that | K |
| Rather long silvery hair or iron gray | A |
| For he was not an old man anyway | A |
| Not beyond sixty And he wore a pair | L |
| Of square framed spectacles or rather there | L |
| Were two more than a pair the extra two | G |
| Flared at the corners at the eyes' side view | G |
| In as redundant vision as the eyes | M |
| Of grasshoppers or bees or dragonflies | M |
| Later the children heard the father say | M |
| He was A Noted Traveler and would stay | M |
| Some days with them In which time host and guest | F |
| Discussed alone in deepest interest | N |
| Some vague mysterious matter that defied | O |
| The wistful children loitering outside | O |
| The spare room door There Bud acquired a quite | P |
| New list of big words such as Disunite | P |
| And Shibboleth and Aristocracy | M |
| And Juggernaut and Squatter Sovereignty | M |
| And Anti slavery Emancipate | P |
| Irrepressible conflict and The Great | P |
| Battle of Armageddon obviously | M |
| A pamphlet brought from Washington D C | M |
| And spread among such friends as might occur | Q |
| Of like views with The Noted Traveler | Q |
James Whitcomb Riley
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