The Noble Old Elm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFGFDHDH IJKJLJMJ| O big old tree so tall an' fine | A |
| Where all us childern swings an' plays | B |
| Though neighbers says you're on the line | A |
| Between Pa's house an' Mr Gray's | B |
| Us childern used to almost fuss | C |
| Old Tree about you when we 'd play | D |
| We'd argy you belonged to us | C |
| An' them Gray kids the other way | D |
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| Till Elsie one time she wuz here | E |
| An' playin' wiv us Don't you mind | F |
| Old Mister Tree an' purty near | G |
| She scolded us the hardest kind | F |
| Fer quar'llin' 'bout you thataway | D |
| An' say she'll find ef we'll keep still | H |
| Whose tree you air fer shore she say | D |
| An' settle it fer good she will | H |
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| So all keep still An' nen she gone | I |
| An' pat the Old Tree an' says she | J |
| Whose air you Tree an' nen let on | K |
| Like she's a list'nin' to the Tree | J |
| An' nen she say It's settled 'cause | L |
| The Old Tree says he's all our tree | J |
| His trunk belongs to bofe your Pas | M |
| But shade belongs to you an' me | J |
James Whitcomb Riley
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