A Prospective Visit Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFFGGH IIJJKKLLDDMNOPQ RRSSTT| While any day was notable and dear | A |
| That gave the children Noey history here | B |
| Records his advent emphasized indeed | C |
| With sharp italics as he came to feed | C |
| The stock one special morning fair and bright | D |
| When Johnty and Bud met him with delight | D |
| Unusual even as their extra dress | E |
| Garbed as for holiday with much excess | E |
| Of proud self consciousness and vain conceit | F |
| In their new finery Far up the street | F |
| They called to Noey as he came that they | G |
| As promised both were going back that day | G |
| To his house with him | H |
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| And by time that each | I |
| Had one of Noey's hands ceasing their speech | I |
| And coyly anxious in their new attire | J |
| To wake the comment of their mute desire | J |
| Noey seemed rendered voiceless Quite a while | K |
| They watched him furtively He seemed to smile | K |
| As though he would conceal it and they saw | L |
| Him look away and his lips purse and draw | L |
| In curious twitching spasms as though he might | D |
| Be whispering while in his eye the white | D |
| Predominated strangely Then the spell | M |
| Gave way and his pent speech burst audible | N |
| 'They wuz two stylish little boys | O |
| and they wuz mighty bold ones | P |
| Had two new pairs o' britches made | Q |
| out o' their daddy's old ones ' | - |
| And at the inspirational outbreak | R |
| Both joker and his victims seemed to take | R |
| An equal share of laughter and all through | S |
| Their morning visit kept recurring to | S |
| The funny words and jingle of the rhyme | T |
| That just kept getting funnier all the time | T |
James Whitcomb Riley
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