A Tale Of The Airly Days Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAAAA AAAACDCD AAAAEEBE DEDFAFAF EEEEEAEA| Oh tell me a tale of the airly days | A |
| Of the times as they ust to be | B |
| 'Piller of Fi er' and 'Shakespeare's Plays' | A |
| Is a' most too deep fer me | B |
| I want plane facts and I want plane words | A |
| Of the good old fashioned ways | A |
| When speech run free as the songs of birds | A |
| 'Way back in the airly days | A |
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| Tell me a tale of the timber lands | A |
| Of the old time pioneers | A |
| Somepin' a pore man understands | A |
| With his feelins's well as ears | A |
| Tell of the old log house about | C |
| The loft and the puncheon flore | D |
| The old fi er place with the crane swung out | C |
| And the latch string thrugh the door | D |
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| Tell of the things jest as they was | A |
| They don't need no excuse | A |
| Don't tech 'em up like the poets does | A |
| Tel theyr all too fine fer use | A |
| Say they was 'leven in the fambily | E |
| Two beds and the chist below | E |
| And the trundle beds that each helt three | B |
| And the clock and the old bureau | E |
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| Then blow the horn at the old back door | D |
| Tel the echoes all halloo | E |
| And the childern gethers home onc't more | D |
| Jest as they ust to do | F |
| Blow fer Pap tel he hears and comes | A |
| With Tomps and Elias too | F |
| A marchin' home with the fife and drums | A |
| And the old Red White and Blue | F |
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| Blow and blow tel the sound draps low | E |
| As the moan of the whipperwill | E |
| And wake up Mother and Ruth and Jo | E |
| All sleepin' at Bethel Hill | E |
| Blow and call tel the faces all | E |
| Shine out in the back log's blaze | A |
| And the shadders dance on the old hewed wall | E |
| As they did in the airly days | A |
James Whitcomb Riley
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