A Scrawl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAA CDCD EFEFI want to sing something but this is all | A |
I try and I try but the rhymes are dull | B |
As though they were damp and the echoes fall | A |
Limp and unlovable | A |
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Words will not say what I yearn to say | C |
They will not walk as I want them to | D |
But they stumble and fall in the path of the way | C |
Of my telling my love for you | D |
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Simply take what the scrawl is worth | E |
Knowing I love you as sun the sod | F |
On the ripening side of the great round earth | E |
That swings in the smile of God | F |
James Whitcomb Riley
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