Back From Town Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEE FGHHDDII IIJKDDII LLMMNNOO| Old friends allus is the best | A |
| Halest like and heartiest | B |
| Knowed us first and don't allow | C |
| We're so blame much better now | C |
| They was standin' at the bars | D |
| When we grabbed the kivvered kyars | D |
| And lit out fer town to make | E |
| Money and that old mistake | E |
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| We thought then the world we went | F |
| Into beat The Settlement | G |
| And the friends 'at we'd make there | H |
| Would beat any anywhere | H |
| And they do fer that's their biz | D |
| They beat all the friends they is | D |
| 'Cept the raal old friends like you | I |
| 'At staid at home like I'd ort to | I |
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| W'y of all the good things yit | I |
| I ain't shet of is to quit | I |
| Business and git back to sheer | J |
| These old comforts waitin' here | K |
| These old friends and these old hands | D |
| 'At a feller understands | D |
| These old winter nights and old | I |
| Young folks chased in out the cold | I |
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| Sing Hard Times'll come ag'in | L |
| No More and neighbors all jine in | L |
| Here's a feller come from town | M |
| Wants that air old fiddle down | M |
| From the chimbly Git the floor | N |
| Cleared fer one cowtillion more | N |
| It's poke the kitchen fire says he | O |
| And shake a friendly leg with me | O |
James Whitcomb Riley
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