Romancin' Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEE EEFF GGEE GGHH IIJJ EEKK LLEE EEMN E OO PPEE QQJJ AARR| I' b'en a kindo musin' as the feller says and I'm | A |
| About o' the conclusion that they ain't no better time | A |
| When you come to cipher on it than the times we used to know | B |
| When we swore our first 'dog gone it' sorto solem' like and low | B |
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| You git my idy do you Little tads you understand | C |
| Jes' a wishin' thue and thue you that you on'y was a man | D |
| Yit here I am this minute even forty to a day | E |
| And fergittin' all that's in it wishin' jes' the other way | E |
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| I hain't no hand to lectur' on the times er dimonstrate | E |
| Whur the trouble is er hector and domineer with Fate | E |
| But when I git so flurried and so pestered like and blue | F |
| And so rail owdacious worried let me tell you what I do | F |
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| I jes' gee haw the hosses and unhook the swingle tree | G |
| Whur the hazel bushes tosses down their shadders over me | G |
| And I draw my plug o' navy and I climb the fence and set | E |
| Jes' a thinkin' here 'y gravy till my eyes is wringin' wet | E |
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| Tho' I still kin see the trouble o' the present I kin see | G |
| Kindo like my sight was double all the things that used to be | G |
| And the flutter o' the robin and the teeter o' the wren | H |
| Sets the willer branches bobbin 'howdy do' thum Now to Then | H |
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| The deadnin' and the thicket's jes' a bilin' full of June | I |
| Thum the rattle o' the cricket to the yallar hammer's tune | I |
| And the catbird in the bottom and the sap suck on the snag | J |
| Seems ef they cain't od rot'em jes' do nothin' else but brag | J |
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| They's music in the twitter of the bluebird and the jay | E |
| And that sassy little critter jes' a peckin' all the day | E |
| They's music in the 'flicker ' and they's music in the thrush | K |
| And they's music in the snicker o' the chipmunk in the brush | K |
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| They's music all around me And I go back in a dream | L |
| Sweeter yit than ever found me fast asleep and in the stream | L |
| That used to split the medder whur the dandylions growed | E |
| I stand knee deep and redder than the sunset down the road | E |
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| Then's when I' b'en a fishin' and they's other fellers too | E |
| With their hickry poles a swishin' out behind 'em and a few | E |
| Little 'shiners' on our stringers with their tails tiptoein' bloom | M |
| As we dance 'em in our fingers all the happy journey home | N |
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| I kin see us true to Natur' thum the time we started out | E |
| With a biscuit and a 'tater in our little 'roundabout ' | - |
| I kin see our lines a tanglin' and our elbows in a jam | O |
| And our naked legs a danglin' thum the apern of the dam | O |
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| I kin see the honeysuckle climbin' up around the mill | P |
| And kin hear the worter chuckle and the wheel a growlin' still | P |
| And thum the bank below it I kin steal the old canoe | E |
| And jes' git in and row it like the miller used to do | E |
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| W'y I git my fancy focussed on the past so mortal plain | Q |
| I kin even smell the locus' blossoms bloomin' in the lane | Q |
| And I hear the cow bells clinkin' sweeter tunes 'n 'money musk' | J |
| Far the lightnin' bugs a blinkin'and a dancin'in the dusk | J |
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| And so I keep on musin' as the feller says till I'm | A |
| Firm fixed in the conclusion that they hain't no better time | A |
| When you come to cipher on it than the old times and I swear | R |
| I kin wake and say 'dog gone it ' jes' as soft as any prayer | R |
James Whitcomb Riley
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