Griggsby's Station Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD ECEC ABAB AFAF AGAG ABAB AAAA CBCB ABAB| Pap's got his patent right and rich is all creation | A |
| But where's the peace and comfort that we all had before | B |
| Le's go a visitin' back to Griggsby's Station | A |
| Back where we ust to be so happy and so pore | B |
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| The likes of us a livin' here It's jest a mortal pity | C |
| To see us in this great big house with cyarpets on the stairs | D |
| And the pump right in the kitchen And the city City City | C |
| And nothin' but the city all around us ever'wheres | D |
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| Climb clean above the roof and look from the steeple | E |
| And never see a robin nor a beech or ellum tree | C |
| And right here in ear shot of at least a thousan' people | E |
| And none that neighbors with us or we want to go and see | C |
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| Le's go a visitin' back to Griggsby's Station | A |
| Back where the latch strings a hangin' from the door | B |
| And ever' neighbor round the place is dear as a relation | A |
| Back where we ust to be so happy and so pore | B |
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| I want to see the Wiggenses the whole kit and bilin' | A |
| A drivin' up from Shallor Ford to stay the Sunday through | F |
| And I want to see 'em hitchin' at their son in law's and pilin' | A |
| Out there at 'Lizy Ellen's like they ust to do | F |
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| I want to see the piece quilts the Jones girls is makin' | A |
| And I want to pester Laury 'bout their freckled hired hand | G |
| And joke her 'bout the widower she come purt' nigh a takin' | A |
| Till her Pap got his pension 'lowed in time to save his land | G |
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| Le's go a visitin' back to Griggsby's Station | A |
| Back where they's nothin' aggervatin' any more | B |
| Shet away safe in the woods around the old location | A |
| Back where we ust to be so happy and so pore | B |
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| I want to see Marindy and he'p her with her sewin' | A |
| And hear her talk so lovin' of her man that's dead and gone | A |
| And stand up with Emanuel to show me how he's growin' | A |
| And smile as I have saw her 'fore she putt her mournin' on | A |
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| And I want to see the Samples on the old lower eighty | C |
| Where John our oldest boy he was tuk and burried for | B |
| His own sake and Katy's and I want to cry with Katy | C |
| As she reads all his letters over writ from The War | B |
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| What's in all this grand life and high situation | A |
| And nary pink nor hollyhawk a bloomin' at the door | B |
| Le's go a visitin' back to Griggsby's Station | A |
| Back where we ust to be so happy and so pore | B |
James Whitcomb Riley
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