Donn Piatt Of Mac-o-chee Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFAA G AAHHIJKKLLMMAA G AANNOOPPLLQQAA R AASSLLLLTALLAA| Donn Piatt of Mac o chee | A |
| Not the one of History | A |
| Who with flaming tongue and pen | B |
| Scathes the vanities of men | B |
| Not the one whose biting wit | C |
| Cuts pretense and etches it | C |
| On the brazen brow that dares | D |
| Filch the laurel that it wears | D |
| Not the Donn Piatt whose praise | E |
| Echoes in the noisy ways | E |
| Of the faction onward led | F |
| By the statesman But instead | F |
| Give the simple man to me | A |
| Donn Piatt of Mac o chee | A |
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| II | G |
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| Donn Piatt of Mac o chee | A |
| Branches of the old oak tree | A |
| Drape him royally in fine | H |
| Purple shade and golden shine | H |
| Emerald plush of sloping lawn | I |
| Be the throne he sits upon | J |
| And O Summer sunset thou | K |
| Be his crown and gild a brow | K |
| Softly smoothed and soothed and calmed | L |
| By the breezes mellow palmed | L |
| As Erata's white hand agleam | M |
| On the forehead of a dream | M |
| So forever rule o'er me | A |
| Donn Piatt of Mac o chee | A |
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| III | G |
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| Donn Piatt of Mac o chee | A |
| Through a lilied memory | A |
| Plays the wayward little creek | N |
| Round thy home at hide and seek | N |
| As I see and hear it still | O |
| Romping round the wooded hill | O |
| Till its laugh and babble blends | P |
| With the silence while it sends | P |
| Glances back to kiss the sight | L |
| In its babyish delight | L |
| Ere it strays amid the gloom | Q |
| Of the glens that burst in bloom | Q |
| Of the rarest rhyme for thee | A |
| Donn Piatt of Mac o chee | A |
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| IV | R |
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| Donn Piatt of Mac o chee | A |
| What a darling destiny | A |
| Has been mine to meet him there | S |
| Lolling in an easy chair | S |
| On the terrace while he told | L |
| Reminiscences of old | L |
| Letting my cigar die out | L |
| Hearing poems talked about | L |
| And entranced to hear him say | T |
| Gentle things of Thackeray | A |
| Dickens Hawthorne and the rest | L |
| Known to him as host and guest | L |
| Known to him as he to me | A |
| Donn Piatt of Mac o chee | A |
James Whitcomb Riley
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