Old Man's Nursery Rhyme Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEFDF A BGEHIEJE A CDCKLML N BGOGBPQP N NRSRBCDC| I | A |
| - | |
| In the jolly winters | B |
| Of the long ago | C |
| It was not so cold as now | D |
| O No No | C |
| Then as I remember | E |
| Snowballs to eat | F |
| Were as good as apples now | D |
| And every bit as sweet | F |
| - | |
| II | A |
| - | |
| In the jolly winters | B |
| Of the dead and gone | G |
| Bub was warm as summer | E |
| With his red mitts on | H |
| Just in his little waist | I |
| And pants all together | E |
| Who ever heard him growl | J |
| About cold weather | E |
| - | |
| III | A |
| - | |
| In the jolly winters of the long ago | C |
| Was it half so cold as now | D |
| O No No | C |
| Who caught his death o' cold | K |
| Making prints of men | L |
| Flat backed in snow that now's | M |
| Twice as cold again | L |
| - | |
| IV | N |
| - | |
| In the jolly winters | B |
| Of the dead and gone | G |
| Startin' out rabbit hunting | O |
| Early as the dawn | G |
| Who ever froze his fingers | B |
| Ears heels or toes | P |
| Or'd a cared if he had | Q |
| Nobody knows | P |
| - | |
| V | N |
| - | |
| Nights by the kitchen stove | N |
| Shelling white and red | R |
| Corn in the skillet and | S |
| Sleepin' four abed | R |
| Ah the jolly winters | B |
| Of the long ago | C |
| We were not so old as now | D |
| O No No | C |
James Whitcomb Riley
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