The Train Misser Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDDECE EFGHEEI JIKEE LCCLMNMNAt Union Station | A |
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'Ll where in the world my eyes has bin | B |
Ef I hain't missed that train ag'in | B |
Chuff And whistle And toot And ring | C |
But blast and blister the dasted train | D |
How it does it I can't explain | D |
Git here thirty five minutes before | E |
The durn things due And drat the thing | C |
It'll manage to git past shore | E |
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The more I travel around the more | E |
I got no sense To stand right here | F |
And let it beat me 'Ll ding my melts | G |
I got no gumption ner nothin' else | H |
Ticket Agent's a dad burned bore | E |
Sell you a tickets all they keer | E |
Ticket Agents ort to all be | I |
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Prosecuted and that's jes what | J |
How'd I know which train's fer me | I |
And how'd I know which train was not | K |
Goern and comin' and gone astray | E |
And backin' and switchin' ever' which way | E |
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Ef I could jes sneak round behind | L |
Myse'f where I could git full swing | C |
I'd lift my coat and kick by jing | C |
Till I jes got jerked up and fined | L |
Fer here I stood as a durn fool's apt | M |
To and let that train jes chuff and choo | N |
Right apast me and mouth jes gapped | M |
Like a blamed old sandwitch warped in two | N |
James Whitcomb Riley
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