Regardin' Terry Hut Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCCCDEFGHHCC CCHIJJKKLMNNCCCC CCOPPOQQHHRRCCCC STKUK CCV CCCCCC| Sence I tuk holt o' Gibbses' Churn | A |
| And be'n a handlin' the concern | A |
| I've travelled round the grand old State | B |
| Of Indiany lots o' late | B |
| I've canvassed Crawferdsville and sweat | C |
| Around the town o' Layfayette | C |
| I've saw a many a County seat | C |
| I ust to think was hard to beat | C |
| At constant dreenage and expense | D |
| I've worked Greencastle and Vincennes | E |
| Drapped out o' Putnam into Clay | F |
| Owen and on down thataway | G |
| Plum into Knox on the back track | H |
| Fer home ag'in and glad I'm back | H |
| I've saw these towns as I say but | C |
| They's none 'at beats old Terry Hut | C |
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| It's more'n likely you'll insist | C |
| I claim this 'cause I'm prejudist | C |
| Bein' born'd here in ole Vygo | H |
| In sight o' Terry Hut but no | I |
| Yer clean dead wrong And I maintain | J |
| They's nary drap in ary vein | J |
| O' mine but what's as free as air | K |
| To jest take issue with you there | K |
| 'Cause boy and man fer forty year | L |
| I've argied ag'inst livin' here | M |
| And jawed around and traded lies | N |
| About our lack o' enterprise | N |
| And tuk and turned in and agreed | C |
| All other towns was in the lead | C |
| When drat my melts They couldn't cut | C |
| No shine a tall with Terry Hut | C |
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| Take even statesmanship and wit | C |
| And ginerel git up and git | C |
| Old Terry Hut is sound clean through | O |
| Turn old Dick Thompson loose er Dan | P |
| Vorehees and where's they any man | P |
| Kin even hold a candle to | O |
| Their eloquence And where's as clean | Q |
| A fi nan seer as Rile' McKeen | Q |
| Er puorer in his daily walk | H |
| In railroad er in racin' stock | H |
| And there's 'Gene Debs a man 'at stands | R |
| And jest holds out in his two hands | R |
| As warm a heart as ever beat | C |
| Betwixt here and the Jedgement Seat | C |
| All these is reasons why I putt | C |
| Sich bulk o' faith in Terry Hut | C |
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| So I've come back with eyes 'at sees | S |
| My faults at last to make my peace | T |
| With this old place and truthful' swear | K |
| Like Gineral Tom Nelson does | U |
| 'They hain't no city anywhere | K |
| On God's green earth lays over us ' | - |
| Our city government is grand | C |
| 'Ner is they better farmin' land | C |
| Sun kissed ' as Tom goes on and says | V |
| 'Er dower'd with sich advantages ' | - |
| And I've come back with welcome tread | C |
| From journeyin's vain as I have said | C |
| To settle down in ca'm content | C |
| And cuss the towns where I have went | C |
| And brag on ourn and boast and strut | C |
| Around the streets o' Terry Hut | C |
James Whitcomb Riley
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