Noey's Night-piece Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDAAAAAAAAEEFF EEGGHHAA AIIJJKLBBMMAANNOB EEBBBB BBCCBBBBBBNNPPBBQQRR S QBTTEEBBFFB BBB| 'They ain't much 'tale' about it ' Noey said | A |
| 'K'tawby grapes wuz gittin' good n red | A |
| I rickollect and Tubb Kingry and me | B |
| 'Ud kindo' browse round town daytime to see | B |
| What neighbers 'peared to have the most to spare | C |
| 'At wuz git at able and no dog there | C |
| When we come round to git 'em say 'bout ten | D |
| O'clock at night when mostly old folks then | D |
| Wuz snorin' at each other like they yit | A |
| Helt some old grudge 'at never slep' a bit | A |
| Well at the Pars'nige ef ye'll call to mind | A |
| They's 'bout the biggest grape arber you'll find | A |
| 'Most anywheres And mostly there we knowed | A |
| They wuz k'tawbies thick as ever growed | A |
| And more'n they'd p'serve Besides I've heerd | A |
| Ma say k'tawby grape p'serves jes 'peared | A |
| A waste o' sugar anyhow And so | E |
| My conscience stayed outside and lem me go | E |
| With Tubb one night the back way clean up through | F |
| That long black arber to the end next to | F |
| The house where the k'tawbies don't you know | E |
| Wuz thickest And t'uz lucky we went slow | E |
| Fer jest as we wuz cropin' tords the gray | G |
| End like of the old arber heerd Tubb say | G |
| In a skeered whisper 'Hold up They's some one | H |
| Jes slippin' in here and looks like a gun | H |
| He's carryin' ' I golly we both spread | A |
| Out flat aginst the ground | A |
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| ''What's that ' Tubb said | A |
| And jest then ' plink plunk plink ' we heerd something | I |
| Under the back porch winder Then i jing | I |
| Of course we rickollected 'bout the young | J |
| School mam 'at wuz a boardin' there and sung | J |
| And played on the melodium in the choir | K |
| And she 'uz 'bout as purty to admire | L |
| As any girl in town the fac's is she | B |
| Jest wuz them times to a dead certainty | B |
| The belle o' this here bailywick But Well | M |
| I'd best git back to what I'm tryin' to tell | M |
| It wuz some feller come to serenade | A |
| Miss Wetherell And there he plunked and played | A |
| His old guitar and sung and kep' his eye | N |
| Set on her winder blacker'n the sky | N |
| And black it stayed But mayby she wuz 'way | O |
| From home er wore out bein' Saturday | B |
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| 'It seemed a good 'eal longer but I know | E |
| He sung and plunked there half a' hour er so | E |
| Afore it 'peared like he could ever git | B |
| His own free qualified consents to quit | B |
| And go off 'bout his business When he went | B |
| I bet you could a bought him fer a cent | B |
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| 'And now behold ye all as Tubb and me | B |
| Wuz 'bout to raise up right in front we see | B |
| A feller slippin' out the arber square | C |
| Smack under that air little winder where | C |
| The other feller had been standin' And | B |
| The thing he wuz a carryin' in his hand | B |
| Wuzn't no gun at all It wuz a flute | B |
| And whoop ee how it did git up and toot | B |
| And chirp and warble tel a mockin' bird | B |
| 'Ud dast to never let hisse'f be heerd | B |
| Ferever after sich miracalous high | N |
| Jim cracks and grand skyrootics played there by | N |
| Yer Cousin Rufus Yes sir it wuz him | P |
| And what's more all a suddent that air dim | P |
| Dark winder o' Miss Wetherell's wuz lit | B |
| Up like a' oyshture sign and under it | B |
| We see him sort o' wet his lips and smile | Q |
| Down 'long his row o' dancin' fingers while | Q |
| He kindo' stiffened up and kinked his breath | R |
| And everlastin'ly jest blowed the peth | R |
| Out o' that air old one keyed flute o' his | S |
| And bless their hearts that's all the 'tale' they is ' | - |
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| And even as Noey closed all radiantly | Q |
| The unconscious hero of the history | B |
| Returning met a perfect driving storm | T |
| Of welcome a reception strangely warm | T |
| And unaccountable to him although | E |
| Most gratifying and he told them so | E |
| 'I only urge ' he said 'my right to be | B |
| Enlightened ' And a voice said ' Certainly | B |
| During your absence we agreed that you | F |
| Should tell us all a story old or new | F |
| Just in the immediate happy frame of mind | B |
| We knew you would return in ' | - |
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| So resigned | B |
| The ready flutist tossed his hat aside | B |
| Glanced at the children smiled and thus complied | B |
James Whitcomb Riley
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