How Did You Rest, Last Night? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCCCA EFEF GCH IJIJCCC| 'How did you rest last night ' | A |
| I've heard my gran'pap say | B |
| Them words a thousand times that's right | C |
| Jes them words thataway | D |
| As punctchul like as morning dast | C |
| To ever heave in sight | C |
| Gran'pap 'ud allus haf to ast | C |
| 'How did you rest last night ' | A |
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| Us young uns used to grin | E |
| At breakfast on the sly | F |
| And mock the wobble of his chin | E |
| And eyebrows belt so high | F |
| And kind 'How did you rest last night ' | - |
| We'd mumble and let on | G |
| Our voices trimbled and our sight | C |
| Was dim and hearin' gone | H |
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| Bad as I used to be | I |
| All I'm a wantin' is | J |
| As puore and ca'm a sleep fer me | I |
| And sweet a sleep as his | J |
| And so I pray on Jedgment Day | C |
| To wake and with its light | C |
| See his face dawn and hear him say | C |
| 'How did you rest last night ' | - |
James Whitcomb Riley
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