The Train Misser Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDDECE EFGHEEI JIKEE LCCLMNMN| At 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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