Our Old Friend Neverfail Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EFDDGADD| O it's good to ketch a relative 'at's richer and don't run | A |
| When you holler out to hold up and'll joke and have his fun | A |
| It's good to hear a man called bad and then find out he's not | B |
| Er strike some chap they call lukewarm 'at's really red hot | B |
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| It's good to know the Devil's painted jes' a leetle black | C |
| And it's good to have most anybody pat you on the back | C |
| But jes' the best thing in the world's our old friend Neverfail | D |
| When he wags yer hand as honest as an old dog wags his tail | D |
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| I like to strike the man I owe the same time I can pay | E |
| And take back things I've borried and su'prise folks thataway | F |
| I like to find out that the man I voted fer last fall | D |
| That didn't git elected was a scoundrel after all | D |
| I like the man that likes the pore and he'ps 'em when he can | G |
| I like to meet a ragged tramp 'at's still a gentleman | A |
| But most I like with you my boy our old friend Neverfail | D |
| When he wags yer hand as honest as an old dog wags his tail | D |
James Whitcomb Riley
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