My Bachelor Chum Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJKLKL AMAMNANA| A corpulent man is my bachelor chum | A |
| With a neck apoplectic and thick | B |
| An abdomen on him as big as a drum | A |
| And a fist big enough for the stick | B |
| With a walk that for grace is clear out of the case | C |
| And a wobble uncertain as though | D |
| His little bow legs had forgotten the pace | C |
| That in youth used to favor him so | D |
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| He is forty at least and the top of his head | E |
| Is a bald and a glittering thing | F |
| And his nose and his two chubby cheeks are as red | E |
| As three rival roses in spring | F |
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| His mouth is a grin with the corners tucked in | G |
| And his laugh is so breezy and bright | H |
| That it ripples his features and dimples his chin | G |
| With a billowy look of delight | H |
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| He is fond of declaring he don't care a straw | I |
| That the ills of a bachelor's life | J |
| Are blisses compared with a mother in law | I |
| And a boarding school miss for a wife | J |
| So he smokes and he drinks and he jokes and he winks | K |
| And he dines and he wines all alone | L |
| With a thumb ever ready to snap as he thinks | K |
| Of the comforts he never has known | L |
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| But up in his den Ah my bachelor chum | A |
| I have sat with him there in the gloom | M |
| When the laugh of his lips died away to become | A |
| But a phantom of mirth in the room | M |
| And to look on him there you would love him for all | N |
| His ridiculous ways and be dumb | A |
| As the little girl face that smiles down from the wall | N |
| On the tears of my bachelor chum | A |
James Whitcomb Riley
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