The Little Coat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDAAEEFFAAAD GGHHHHAA IIJJK LLMMJJAAFFAANNFFHere's his ragged 'roundabout' | A |
Turn the pockets inside out | A |
See his pen knife lost to use | B |
Rusted shut with apple juice | B |
Here with marbles top and string | C |
Is his deadly 'devil sling ' | D |
With its rubber limp at last | A |
As the sparrows of the past | A |
Beeswax buckles leather straps | E |
Bullets and a box of caps | E |
Not a thing of all I guess | F |
But betrays some waywardness | F |
E'en these tickets blue and red | A |
For the Bible verses said | A |
Such as this his mem'ry kept | A |
'Jesus wept ' | D |
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Here's a fishing hook and line | G |
Tangled up with wire and twine | G |
And dead angle worms and some | H |
Slugs of lead and chewing gum | H |
Blent with scents that can but come | H |
From the oil of rhodium | H |
Here a soiled yet dainty note | A |
That some little sweetheart wrote | A |
Dotting 'Vine grows round the stump ' | - |
And 'My sweetest sugar lump ' | - |
Wrapped in this a padlock key | I |
Where he's filed a touch hole see | I |
And some powder in a quill | J |
Corked up with a liver pill | J |
And a spongy little chunk | K |
Of 'punk ' | - |
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Here's the little coat but O | L |
Where is he we've censured so | L |
Don't you hear us calling dear | M |
Back come back and never fear | M |
You may wander where you will | J |
Over orchard field and hill | J |
You may kill the birds or do | A |
Anything that pleases you | A |
Ah this empty coat of his | F |
Every tatter worth a kiss | F |
Every stain as pure instead | A |
As the white stars overhead | A |
And the pockets homes were they | N |
Of the little hands that play | N |
Now no more but absent thus | F |
Beckon us | F |
James Whitcomb Riley
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