Abe Martin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCCB DDDEAAAE CCCFGGGF FFFDAAAD| Abe Martin dad burn his old picture | A |
| P'tends he's a Brown County fixture | A |
| A kind of a comical mixture | A |
| Of hoss sense and no sense at all | B |
| His mouth like his pipe 's allus goin' | C |
| And his thoughts like his whiskers is flowin' | C |
| And what he don't know ain't wuth knowin' | C |
| From Genesis clean to baseball | B |
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| The artist Kin Hubbard 's so keerless | D |
| He draws Abe 'most eyeless and earless | D |
| But he's never yet pictured him cheerless | D |
| Er with fun 'at he tries to conceal | E |
| Whuther on to the fence er clean over | A |
| A rootin' up ragweed er clover | A |
| Skeert stiff at some Rambler er Rover | A |
| Er newfangled automobeel | E |
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| It's a purty steep climate old Brown's in | C |
| And the rains there his ducks nearly drowns in | C |
| The old man hisse'f wades his rounds in | C |
| As ca'm and serene mighty nigh | F |
| As the old handsaw hawg er the mottled | G |
| Milch cow er the old rooster wattled | G |
| Like the mumps had him 'most so well throttled | G |
| That it was a pleasure to die | F |
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| But best of 'em all's the fool breaks 'at | F |
| Abe don't see at all and yit makes 'at | F |
| Both me and you lays back and shakes at | F |
| His comic miraculous cracks | D |
| Which makes him clean back of the power | A |
| Of genius itse'f in its flower | A |
| This Notable Man of the Hour | A |
| Abe Martin The Joker on Facts | D |
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