On The Banks O' Deer Crick Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCAA DDAAEEFF GGHHGGII JKBL AA| On the banks o' Deer Crick There's the place fer me | A |
| Worter slidin' past ye jes as clair as it kin be | A |
| See yer shadder in it and the shadder o' the sky | B |
| And the shadder o' the buzzard as he goes a lazein' by | B |
| Shadder o' the pizen vines and shadder o' the trees | C |
| And I purt' nigh said the shadder o' the sunshine and the breeze | C |
| Well I never seen the ocean ner I never seen the sea | A |
| On the banks o' Deer Crick's grand enough fer me | A |
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| On the banks o' Deer Crick mild er two from town | D |
| 'Long up where the mill race comes a loafin' down | D |
| Like to git up in there 'mongst the sycamores | A |
| And watch the worter at the dam a frothin' as she pours | A |
| Crawl out on some old log with my hook and line | E |
| Where the fish is jes so thick you kin see 'em shine | E |
| As they flicker round yer bait coaxin ' you to jerk | F |
| Tel yer tired ketchin' of 'em mighty nigh as work | F |
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| On the banks o' Deer Crick Allus my delight | G |
| Jes to be around there take it day er night | G |
| Watch the snipes and killdees foolin' half the day | H |
| Er these 'ere little worter bugs skootin' ever'way | H |
| Snakefeeders glancin' round er dartin' out o' sight | G |
| And dew fall and bullfrogs and lightnin' bugs at night | G |
| Stars up through the tree tops er in the crick below | I |
| And smell o' mussrat through the dark clean from the old b'y o | I |
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| Er take a tromp some Sund'y say 'way up to 'Johnson's Hole ' | - |
| And find where he's had a fire and hid his fishin' pole | J |
| Have yer 'dog leg ' with ye and yer pipe and 'cut and dry' | K |
| Pocketful o' corn bred and slug er two o' rye | B |
| Soak yer hide in sunshine and waller in the shade | L |
| Like the Good Book tells us 'where there're none to make afraid ' | - |
| Well I never seen the ocean ner I never seen the sea | A |
| On the banks o' Deer Crick's grand enough fer me | A |
James Whitcomb Riley
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