The Hoosier Folk-child Poem Rhyme Scheme

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The Hoosier Folk Child all unsung	A
Unlettered all of mind and tongue	A
Unmastered unmolested made	B
Most wholly frank and unafraid	B
Untaught of any school unvexed	B
Of law or creed all unperplexed	B
Unsermoned aye and undefiled	B
An all imperfect perfect child	B
A type which Heaven forgive us you	C
And I do tardy honor to	C
And so profane the sanctities	D
Of our most sacred memories	D
Who growing thus from boy to man	E
That dares not be American	F
Go Pride with prudent underbuzz	D
Go whistle as the Folk Child does	D
	-
The Hoosier Folk Child's world is not	B
Much wider than the stable lot	B
Between the house and highway fence	D
That bounds the home his father rents	D
His playmates mostly are the ducks	D
And chickens and the boy that 'shucks	D
Corn by the shock ' and talks of town	G
And whether eggs are 'up' or 'down '	-
And prophesies in boastful tone	H
Of 'owning horses of his own '	-
And 'being his own man ' and 'when	H
He gets to be what he'll do then '	-
Takes out his jack knife dreamily	I
And makes the Folk Child two or three	J
Crude corn stalk figures a wee span	H
Of horses and a little man	H
	-
The Hoosier Folk Child's eyes are wise	D
And wide and round as Brownies' eyes	D
The smile they wear is ever blent	B
With all expectant wonderment	B
On homeliest things they bend a look	K
As rapt as o'er a picture book	K
And seem to ask whate'er befall	I
The happy reason of it all	I
Why grass is all so glad a green	H
And leaves and what their lispings mean	H
Why buds grow on the boughs and why	L
They burst in blossom by and by	L
As though the orchard in the breeze	D
Had shook and popped its popcorn trees	D
To lure and whet as well they might	B
Some seven league giant's appetite	B
	-
The Hoosier Folk Child's chubby face	D
Has scant refinement caste or grace	D
From crown to chin and cheek to cheek	M
It bears the grimy water streak	M
Of rinsings such as some long rain	H
Might drool across the window pane	H
Wherethrough he peers with troubled frown	H
As some lorn team drives by for town	H
His brow is elfed with wispish hair	N
With tangles in it here and there	N
As though the warlocks snarled it so	D
At midmirk when the moon sagged low	D
And boughs did toss and skreek and shake	O
And children moaned themselves awake	O
With fingers clutched and starting sight	B
Blind as the blackness of the night	B
	-
The Hoosier Folk Child Rich is he	J
In all the wealth of poverty	J
He owns nor title nor estate	B
Nor speech but half articulate	B
He owns nor princely robe nor crown	H
Yet draped in patched and faded brown	H
He owns the bird songs of the hills	D
The laughter of the April rills	D
And his are all the diamonds set	B
In Morning's dewy coronet	B
And his the Dusk's first minted stars	D
That twinkle through the pasture bars	D
And litter all the skies at night	B
With glittering scraps of silver light	B
The rainbow's bar from rim to rim	P
In beaten gold belongs to him	P

James Whitcomb Riley

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