Nothin' To Say Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCAA DDAA EEAA FFAA| Nothin' to say my daughter Nothin' at all to say | A |
| Gyrls that's in love I've noticed ginerly has their way | A |
| Yer mother did afore you when her folks objected to me | B |
| Yit here I am and here you air and yer mother where is she | B |
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| You look lots like yer mother Purty much same in size | C |
| And about the same complected and favor about the eyes | C |
| Like her too about livin ' here because she couldn't stay | A |
| It'll 'most seem like you was dead like her But I hain't got nothin' to say | A |
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| She left you her little Bible writ yer name acrost the page | D |
| And left her ear bobs fer you ef ever you come of age | D |
| I've allus kep' 'em and gyuarded 'em but ef yer goin' away | A |
| Nothin' to say my daughter Nothin' at all to say | A |
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| You don't rikollect her I reckon No you wasn't a year old then | E |
| And now yer how old air you W'y child not ' twenty ' When | E |
| And yer nex' birthday's in Aprile and you want to git married that day | A |
| I wisht yer mother was livin' But I hain't got nothin' to say | A |
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| Twenty year and as good a gyrl as parent ever found | F |
| There's a straw ketched onto yer dress there I'll bresh it off turn round | F |
| Her mother was jes' twenty when us two run away | A |
| Nothin' to say my daughter Nothin' at all to say | A |
James Whitcomb Riley
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