Scraps Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE FGDGFEHE FIJIKLML NOJPQRST DUDUVEWE| There's a habit I have nurtured | A |
| From the sentimental time | B |
| When my life was like a story | C |
| And my heart a happy rhyme | B |
| Of clipping from the paper | D |
| Or magazine perhaps | E |
| The idle songs of dreamers | F |
| Which I treasure as my scraps | E |
| - | |
| They hide among my letters | F |
| And they find a cozy nest | G |
| In the bosom of my wrapper | D |
| And the pockets of my vest | G |
| They clamber in my fingers | F |
| Till my dreams of wealth relapse | E |
| In fairer dreams than Fortune's | H |
| Though I find them only scraps | E |
| - | |
| Sometimes I find in tatters | F |
| Like a beggar form as fair | I |
| As ever gave to Heaven | J |
| The treasure of a prayer | I |
| And words all dim and faded | K |
| And obliterate in part | L |
| Grow into fadeless meanings | M |
| That are printed on the heart | L |
| - | |
| Sometimes a childish jingle | N |
| Flings an echo sweet and clear | O |
| And thrills me as I listen | J |
| To the laughs I used to hear | P |
| And I catch the gleam of faces | Q |
| And the glimmer of glad eyes | R |
| That peep at me expectant | S |
| O'er the walls of Paradise | T |
| - | |
| O syllables of measure | D |
| Though you wheel yourselves in line | U |
| And await the further order | D |
| Of this eager voice of mine | U |
| You are powerless to follow | V |
| O'er the field my fancy maps | E |
| So I lead you back to silence | W |
| Feeling you are only scraps | E |
James Whitcomb Riley
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