The Little Coat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDAAEEFFAAAD GGHHHHAA IIJJK LLMMJJAAFFAANNFF| Here'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 |
| - | |
| 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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