By Any Other Name Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GCGCBFGF BBFBHBCB FBCBIGGG| First the teacher called the roll | A |
| Clos't to the beginnin' | B |
| Addeliney Bowersox | C |
| Set the school a grinnin' | B |
| Wintertime and stingin' cold | D |
| When the session took up | E |
| Cold as we all looked at her | F |
| Though she couldn't look up | E |
| - | |
| Total stranger to us too | G |
| Country folks ain't allus | C |
| Nigh so shameful unpolite | G |
| As some people call us | C |
| But the honest facts is then | B |
| Addeliney Bower | F |
| Sox's feelin's was so hurt | G |
| She cried half an hour | F |
| - | |
| My dest was acrost from her 'n | B |
| Set and watched her tryin' | B |
| To p'tend she didn't keer | F |
| And a kind o' dryin' | B |
| Up her tears with smiles tel I | H |
| Thought Well 'Addeliney | B |
| Bowersox' is plain but she's | C |
| Purty as a piney | B |
| - | |
| It's be'n many of a year | F |
| Sence that most oncommon | B |
| Cur'ous name o' Bowersox | C |
| Struck me so abomin | B |
| Nubble and outlandish like | I |
| I changed it to Adde | G |
| Liney Daubenspeck and that | G |
| Nearly killed her Daddy | G |
James Whitcomb Riley
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