The Good, Old-fashioned People Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCBDDDB EFGFHIHI DDDB JKJLMBMBDDDB| When we hear Uncle Sidney tell | A |
| About the long ago | B |
| An' old old friends he loved so well | A |
| When he was young My oh | B |
| Us childern all wish we'd 'a' bin | C |
| A livin' then with Uncle so | B |
| We could a kindo' happened in | C |
| On them old friends he used to know | B |
| The good old fashioned people | D |
| The hale hard working people | D |
| The kindly country people | D |
| 'At Uncle used to know | B |
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| They was God's people Uncle says | E |
| An' gloried in His name | F |
| An' worked without no selfishness | G |
| An' loved their neighbers same | F |
| As they was kin An' when they biled | H |
| Their tree molasses in the Spring | I |
| Er butchered in the Fall they smiled | H |
| An' sheered with all jist ever'thing | I |
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| The good old fashioned people | D |
| The hale hard working people | D |
| The kindly country people | D |
| 'At Uncle used to know | B |
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| He tells about 'em lots o' times | J |
| Till we'd all ruther hear | K |
| About 'em than the Nurs'ry Rhymes | J |
| Er Fairies mighty near | L |
| Only sometimes he stops so long | M |
| An' then talks on so low an' slow | B |
| It's purt' nigh sad as any song | M |
| To listen to him talkin' so | B |
| Of the good old fashioned people | D |
| The hale hard working people | D |
| The kindly country people | D |
| 'At Uncle used to know | B |
James Whitcomb Riley
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