Floretty's Musical Contribution Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBBCD EFFGGH HIHHHHBBH JJKKLLMMIB IBBNNHHHHIIJOOOOOB BBBBPPQQAARRS SIIOOOOGGBBJJIIPPTUC EVVB BBBB OOBB RR OR QQ O BBHHB I IOOAll seemed delighted though the elders more | A |
Of course than were the children Thus before | A |
Much interchange of mirthful compliment | B |
The story teller said his stories 'went' | B |
Like a bad candle best when they went out | B |
And that some sprightly music dashed about | B |
Would wholly quench his 'glimmer ' and inspire | C |
Far brighter lights | D |
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And answering this desire | E |
The flutist opened in a rapturous strain | F |
Of rippling notes a perfect April rain | F |
Of melody that drenched the senses through | G |
Then gentler gentler as the dusk sheds dew | G |
It fell by velvety staccatoed halts | H |
Swooning away in old 'Von Weber's Waltz ' | - |
Then the young ladies sang 'Isle of the Sea' | H |
In ebb and flow and wave so billowy | I |
Only with quavering breath and folded eyes | H |
The listeners heard buoyed on the fall and rise | H |
Of its insistent and exceeding stress | H |
Of sweetness and ecstatic tenderness | H |
With lifted finger yet Remembrance List | B |
' Beautiful isle of the sea ' wells in a mist | B |
Of tremulous | H |
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After much whispering | J |
Among the children Alex came to bring | J |
Some kind of letter as it seemed to be | K |
To Cousin Rufus This he carelessly | K |
Unfolded reading to himself alone | L |
But since its contents became later known | L |
And no one ' plagued so awful bad ' the same | M |
May here be given of course without full name | M |
Fac simile or written kink or curl | I |
Or clue It read | B |
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'Wild Roved an indian Girl | I |
Brite al Floretty' | B |
deer freind | B |
I now take | N |
this These means to send that Song to you make | N |
my Promus good to you in the Regards | H |
Of doing What i Promust afterwards | H |
the notes Words is both here Printed SOS | H |
you kin can git uncle Mart to read you them those | H |
cousin Rufus you can git to Play | I |
the notes fur you on eny Plezunt day | I |
His Legul Work aint Pressin Pressing | J |
Ever thine | O |
As shore as the Vine | O |
doth the Stump intwine | O |
thou art my Lump of Sackkerrine | O |
Rinaldo Rinaldine | O |
the Pirut in Captivity | B |
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There dropped | B |
Another square scrap But the hand was stopped | B |
That reached for it Floretty suddenly | B |
Had set a firm foot on her property | B |
Thinking it was the letter not the song | P |
But blushing to discover she was wrong | P |
When with all gravity of face and air | Q |
Her precious letter handed to her there | Q |
By Cousin Rufus left her even more | A |
In apprehension than she was before | A |
But testing his unwavering kindly eye | R |
She seemed to put her last suspicion by | R |
And in exchange handed the song to him | S |
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A page torn from a song book Small and dim | S |
Both notes and words were but as plain as day | I |
They seemed to him as he began to play | I |
And plain to all the singers as he ran | O |
An airy warbling prelude then began | O |
Singing and swinging in so blithe a strain | O |
That every voice rang in the old refrain | O |
From the beginning of the song clean through | G |
Floretty's features were a study to | G |
The flutist who 'read notes ' so readily | B |
Yet read so little of the mystery | B |
Of that face of the girl's Indeed one thing | J |
Bewildered him quite into worrying | J |
And that was noticing throughout it all | I |
The Hired Man shrinking closer to the wall | I |
She ever backing toward him through the throng | P |
Of barricading children till the song | P |
Was ended and at last he saw her near | T |
Enough to reach and take him by the ear | U |
And pinch it just a pang's worth of her ire | C |
And leave it burning like a coal of fire | E |
He noticed too in subtle pantomime | V |
She seemed to dust him off from time to time | V |
And when somebody later asked if she | B |
Had never heard the song before 'What me ' | - |
She said then blushed again and smiled | B |
'I've knowed that song sence Adam was a child | B |
It's jes a joke o' this here man's He's learned | B |
To read and write a little and its turned | B |
His fool head some That's all ' | - |
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And then some one | O |
Of the loud wrangling boys said ' Course they's none | O |
No more these days They's Fairies ust to be | B |
But they're all dead a hunderd years ' said he | B |
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'Well there's where you're mustakened ' in reply | R |
They heard Bud's voice pitched sharp and thin and high | R |
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'An' how you goin' to prove it ' | - |
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'Well I kin ' | - |
Said Bud with emphasis 'They's one lives in | O |
Our garden and I see 'im wunst wiv my | R |
Own eyes one time I did ' | - |
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' Oh what a lie ' | - |
'' Sh '' | - |
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'Well nen ' said the skeptic seeing there | Q |
The older folks attracted 'Tell us where | Q |
You saw him an' all 'bout him ' | - |
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'Yes my son | O |
If you tell 'stories ' you may tell us one ' | - |
The smiling father said while Uncle Mart | B |
Behind him winked at Bud and pulled apart | B |
His nose and chin with comical grimace | H |
Then sighed aloud with sanctimonious face | H |
'' How good and comely it is to see | B |
Children and parents in friendship agree ' | - |
You fire away Bud on your Fairy tale | I |
Your Uncle's here to back you ' | - |
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Somewhat pale | I |
And breathless as to speech the little man | O |
Gathered himself And thus his story ran | O |
James Whitcomb Riley
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