Joney Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAABCDBD EFGGFHIHJ GKGGKFGFG LMNNMHOHO PMPPMFGFG QFRRFGSGS GGGGGGNGN| Had a hare lip Joney had | A |
| Spiled his looks and Joney knowed it | B |
| Fellers tried to bore him bad | A |
| But ef ever he got mad | A |
| He kep' still and never showed it | B |
| 'Druther have his mouth all pouted | C |
| And split up and like it wuz | D |
| Than the ones 'at laughed about it | B |
| Purty is as purty does | D |
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| Had to listen ruther clos't | E |
| 'Fore you knowed 'what he wuz givin' | F |
| You and yet without no boast | G |
| Joney he wuz jest the most | G |
| Entertainin' talker livin' | F |
| Take the Scriptur's and run through 'em | H |
| Might say like a' auctioneer | I |
| And 'ud argy and review 'em | H |
| 'At wuz beautiful to hear | J |
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| Hare lip and inpediment | G |
| Both wuz bad and both ag'in' him | K |
| But the old folks where he went | G |
| 'Preared like knowin' his intent | G |
| 'Scused his mouth fer what wuz in him | K |
| And the childern all loved Joney | F |
| And he loved 'em back you bet | G |
| Putt their arms around him on'y | F |
| None had ever kissed him yet | G |
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| In young company someway | L |
| Boys 'ud grin at one another | M |
| On the sly and girls 'ud lay | N |
| Low with nothin' much to say | N |
| Er leave Joney with their mother | M |
| Many and many a time he's fetched 'em | H |
| Candy by the paper sack | O |
| And turned right around and ketched 'em | H |
| Makin mouths behind his back | O |
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| S'prised sometimes the slurs he took | P |
| Chap said onc't his mouth looked sorter | M |
| Like a fish's mouth 'ud look | P |
| When he'd be'n jerked off the hook | P |
| And plunked back into the worter | M |
| Same durn feller it's su'prisin' | F |
| But it's facts 'at stood and cherred | G |
| From the bank that big babtizin' | F |
| 'Pike bridge accident occurred | G |
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| Cherred for Joney while he give | Q |
| Life to little childern drowndin' | F |
| Which wuz fittenest to live | R |
| Him 'at cherred er him 'at div' | R |
| And saved thirteen lives They found one | F |
| Body three days later floated | G |
| Down the by o eight mile' south | S |
| All so colored up and bloated | G |
| On'y knowed him by his mouth | S |
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| Had a hare lip Joney had | G |
| Folks 'at filed apast all knowed it | G |
| Them 'at ust to smile looked sad | G |
| But ef he thought good er bad | G |
| He kep' still and never showed it | G |
| 'Druther have that mouth all pouted | G |
| And split up and like it wuz | N |
| Than the ones 'at laughed about it | G |
| Purty is as purty does | N |
James Whitcomb Riley
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