The Traveling Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDE AFAFGHIH A JKJELMLM NONPQBQB| I | A |
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| Could I pour out the nectar the gods only can | B |
| I would fill up my glass to the brim | C |
| And drink the success of the Traveling Man | B |
| And the house represented by him | C |
| And could I but tincture the glorious draught | D |
| With his smiles as I drank to him then | E |
| And the jokes he has told and the laughs he has laughed | D |
| I would fill up the goblet again | E |
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| And drink to the sweetheart who gave him good by | A |
| With a tenderness thrilling him this | F |
| Very hour as he thinks of the tear in her eye | A |
| That salted the sweet of her kiss | F |
| To her truest of hearts and her fairest of hands | G |
| I would drink with all serious prayers | H |
| Since the heart she must trust is a Traveling Man's | I |
| And as warm as the ulster he wears | H |
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| II | A |
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| I would drink to the wife with the babe on her knee | J |
| Who awaits his returning in vain | K |
| Who breaks his brave letters so tremulously | J |
| And reads them again and again | E |
| And I'd drink to the feeble old mother who sits | L |
| At the warm fireside of her son | M |
| And murmurs and weeps o'er the stocking she knits | L |
| As she thinks of the wandering one | M |
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| I would drink a long life and a health to the friends | N |
| Who have met him with smiles and with cheer | O |
| To the generous hand that the landlord extends | N |
| To the wayfarer journeying here | P |
| And I pledge when he turns from this earthly abode | Q |
| And pays the last fare that he can | B |
| Mine Host of the Inn at the End of the Road | Q |
| Will welcome the Traveling Man | B |
James Whitcomb Riley
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