Them Flowers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHIH JKJKLMLM| Take a feller 'at's sick and laid up on the shelf | A |
| All shaky and ga'nted and pore | B |
| Jes all so knocked out he can't handle hisself | A |
| With a stiff upper lip any more | B |
| Shet him up all alone in the gloom of a room | C |
| As dark as the tomb and as grim | D |
| And then take and send him some roses in bloom | C |
| And you can have fun out o' him | D |
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| You've ketched him 'fore now when his liver was sound | E |
| And his appetite notched like a saw | F |
| A mockin' you mayby fer romancin' round | E |
| With a big posy bunch in yer paw | F |
| But you ketch him say when his health is away | G |
| And he's flat on his back in distress | H |
| And then you kin trot out yer little bokay | I |
| And not be insulted I guess | H |
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| You see it's like this what his weaknesses is | J |
| Them flowers makes him think of the days | K |
| Of his innocent youth and that mother o' his | J |
| And the roses that she us't to raise | K |
| So here all alone with the roses you send | L |
| Bein' sick and all trimbly and faint | M |
| My eyes is my eyes is my eyes is old friend | L |
| Is a leakin' I'm blamed ef they ain't | M |
James Whitcomb Riley
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