Down Around The River Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEE AAEEFFAA BBDGBBAA BBBBBBAA| Noon time and June time down around the river | A |
| Have to furse with 'Lizey Ann but lawzy I fergive her | A |
| Drives me off the place and says 'at all 'at she's a wishin' | B |
| Land o' gracious time'll come I'll git enough o' fishin' | B |
| Little Dave a choppin' wood never 'pears to notice | C |
| Don't know where she's hid his hat er keerin' where his coat is | D |
| Specalatin' more 'n like he haint a goin' to mind me | E |
| And guessin' where say twelve o'clock a feller'd likely find me | E |
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| Noon time and June time down around the river | A |
| Clean out o' sight o' home and skulkin' under kivver | A |
| Of the sycamores jack oaks and swamp ash and ellum | E |
| Idies all so jumbled up you kin hardly tell 'em | E |
| Tired you know but lovin' it and smilin' jest to think 'at | F |
| Any sweeter tiredness you'd fairly want to drink it | F |
| Tired o' fishin' tired o' fun line out slack and slacker | A |
| All you want in all the world's a little more tobacker | A |
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| Hungry but a hidin' it er jes' a not a keerin' | B |
| Kingfisher gittin' up and skootin' out o' hearin' | B |
| Snipes on the t'other side where the County Ditch is | D |
| Wadin' up and down the aidge like they'd rolled their britches | G |
| Old turkle on the root kindo sorto drappin' | B |
| Intoo th' worter like he don't know how it happen | B |
| Worter shade and all so mixed don't know which you'd orter | A |
| Say th' worter in the shadder shadder in the worter | A |
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| Somebody hollerin' 'way around the bend in | B |
| Upper Fork where yer eye kin jes' ketch the endin' | B |
| Of the shiney wedge o' wake some muss rat's a makin' | B |
| With that pesky nose o' his Then a sniff o' bacon | B |
| Corn bread and 'dock greens and little Dave a shinnin' | B |
| 'Crost the rocks and mussel shells a limpin' and a grinnin' | B |
| With yer dinner far ye and a blessin' from the giver | A |
| Noon time and June time down around the river | A |
James Whitcomb Riley
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