Jap Miller Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEE FFDGGAADD GGAADDAA HHIIDDDD| Jap Miller down at Martinsville's the blamedest feller yit | A |
| When he starts in a talkin' other folks is apt to quit | A |
| 'Pears like that mouth o' his'n wuz n't made fer nuthin' else | B |
| But jes' to argify 'em down and gether in their pelts | C |
| He'll talk you down on tariff er he'll talk you down on tax | D |
| And prove the pore man pays 'em all and them's about the fac's | D |
| Religen law er politics prize fightin' er base ball | E |
| Jes' tetch Jap up a little and he'll post you 'bout 'em all | E |
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| And the comicalist feller ever tilted back a cheer | F |
| And tuck a chaw tobacker kind o' like he did n't keer | F |
| There's where the feller's strength lays he's so | D |
| common like and plain | G |
| They haint no dude about old Jap you bet you nary grain | G |
| They 'lected him to Council and it never turned his head | A |
| And did n't make no differunce what anybody said | A |
| He didn't dress no finer ner rag out in fancy clothes | D |
| But his voice in Council meetin's is a turrer to his foes | D |
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| He's fer the pore man ever' time And in the last campaign | G |
| He stumped old Morgan County through the sunshine and the rain | G |
| And helt the banner up'ards from a trailin' in the dust | A |
| And cut loose on monopolies and cuss'd and cuss'd and cuss'd | A |
| He'd tell some funny story ever' now and then you know | D |
| Tel blame it it wuz better 'n a jack o' lantern show | D |
| And I'd go furder yit to day to hear old Jap norate | A |
| Than any high toned orator 'at ever stumped the State | A |
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| W'y that air blame Jap Miller with his keen sircastic fun | H |
| Has got more friends than ary candidate 'at ever run | H |
| Do n't matter what his views is when he states the same to you | I |
| They allus coincide with your'n the same as two and two | I |
| You can't take issue with him er at least they haint no sense | D |
| In startin' in to down him so you better not commence | D |
| The best way's jes' to listen like your humble servant does | D |
| And jes' concede Jap Miller is the best man ever wuz | D |
James Whitcomb Riley
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