It's_got_to Be Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGA HIJKLMN FGA OPQPLRLS FGA FTFTUGV FGA WGW VMXM AGA| 'When it's got to be ' like always say | A |
| As I notice the years whiz past | B |
| And know each day is a yesterday | A |
| When we size it up at last | B |
| Same as I said when my boyhood went | C |
| And I knowed we had to quit | D |
| 'It's got to be and it's goin' to be ' | E |
| So I said 'Good by' to it | D |
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| It's got to be and it's goin' to be | F |
| So at least I always try | G |
| To kind o' say in a hearty way | A |
| 'Well it's got to be Good by ' | - |
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| The time jes melts like a late last snow | H |
| When it's got to be it melts | I |
| But I aim to keep a cheerful mind | J |
| Ef I can't keep nothin' else | K |
| I knowed when I come to twenty one | L |
| That I'd soon be twenty two | M |
| So I waved one hand at the soft young man | N |
| And I said 'Good by to you ' | - |
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| It's got to be and it's goin' to be | F |
| So at least I always try | G |
| To kind o' say in a cheerful way | A |
| 'Well it's got to be Good by ' | - |
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| They kep' a goin' the years and years | O |
| Yet still I smiled and smiled | P |
| For I'd said 'Good by' to my single life | Q |
| And I now had a wife and child | P |
| Mother and son and the father one | L |
| Till last on her bed of pain | R |
| She jes' smiled up like she always done | L |
| And I said 'Good by' again | S |
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| It's got to be and it's goin' to be | F |
| So at least I always try | G |
| To kind o' say in a humble way | A |
| 'Well it's got to be Good by ' | - |
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| And then my boy as he growed to be | F |
| Almost a man in size | T |
| Was more than a pride and joy to me | F |
| With his mother's smilin' eyes | T |
| He gimme the slip when the War broke out | U |
| And followed me And I | G |
| Never knowed till the first right's end | V |
| I found him and then 'Good by ' | - |
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| It's got to be and it's goin' to be | F |
| So at least I always try | G |
| To kind o' say in a patient way | A |
| 'Well it's got to be Good by ' | - |
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| I have said 'Good by Good by Good by ' | - |
| With my very best good will | W |
| All through life from the first and I | G |
| Am a cheerful old man still | W |
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| But it's got to end and it's goin' to end | V |
| And this is the thing I'll do | M |
| With my last breath I will laugh O Death | X |
| And say 'Good by' to you | M |
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| It's got to be And again I say | A |
| When his old scythe circles high | G |
| I'll laugh of course in the kindest way | A |
| As I say 'Good by Good by ' | - |
James Whitcomb Riley
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