The Circus-day Parade Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCAA DDEE AAFF AAGG HHAA AABB| Oh the Circus Day parade How the bugles played and played | A |
| And how the glossy horses tossed their flossy manes and neighed | A |
| As the rattle and the rhyme of the tenor drummer's time | B |
| Filled all the hungry hearts of us with melody sublime | B |
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| How the grand band wagon shone with a splendor all its own | C |
| And glittered with a glory that our dreams had never known | C |
| And how the boys behind high and low of every kind | A |
| Marched in unconscious capture with a rapture undefined | A |
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| How the horsemen two and two with their plumes of white and blue | D |
| And crimson gold and purple nodding by at me and you | D |
| Waved the banners that they bore as the Knights in days of yore | E |
| Till our glad eyes gleamed and glistened like the spangles that they wore | E |
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| How the graceless graceful stride of the elephant was eyed | A |
| And the capers of the little horse that cantered at his side | A |
| How the shambling camels tame to the plaudits of their fame | F |
| With listless eyes came silent masticating as they came | F |
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| How the cages jolted past with each wagon battened fast | A |
| And the mystery within it only hinted of at last | A |
| From the little grated square in the rear and nosing there | G |
| The snout of some strange animal that sniffed the outer air | G |
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| And last of all The Clown making mirth for all the town | H |
| With his lips curved ever upward and his eyebrows ever down | H |
| And his chief attention paid to the little mule that played | A |
| A tattoo on the dashboard with his heels in the parade | A |
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| Oh the Circus Day parade How the bugles played and played | A |
| And how the glossy horses tossed their flossy manes and neighed | A |
| As the rattle and the rhyme of the tenor drummer's time | B |
| Filled all the hungry hearts of us with melody sublime | B |
James Whitcomb Riley
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