To The Judge Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCECFC GHIH CJC KHHHLCLC MNMNOCPC KKKKECKC| A Voice From the Interior of Old Hoop Pole Township | A |
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| Friend of my earliest youth | B |
| Can't you arrange to come down | C |
| And visit a fellow out here in the woods | D |
| Out of the dust of the town | C |
| Can't you forget you're a Judge | E |
| And put by your dolorous frown | C |
| And tan your wan face in the smile of a friend | F |
| Can't you arrange to come down | C |
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| Can't you forget for a while | G |
| The arguments prosy and drear | H |
| To lean at full length in indefinite rest | I |
| In the lap of the greenery here | H |
| Can't you kick over 'the Bench ' | - |
| And 'husk' yourself out of your gown | C |
| To dangle your legs where the fishing is good | J |
| Can't you arrange to come down | C |
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| Bah for your office of State | K |
| And bah for its technical lore | H |
| What does our President high in his chair | H |
| But wish himself low as before | H |
| Pick between peasant and king | L |
| Poke your bald head through a crown | C |
| Or shadow it here with the laurels of Spring | L |
| Can't you arrange to come down | C |
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| 'Judge it' out here if you will | M |
| The birds are in session by dawn | N |
| You can draw not complaints but a sketch of the hill | M |
| And a breath that your betters have drawn | N |
| You can open your heart like a case | O |
| To a jury of kine white and brown | C |
| And their verdict of 'Moo' will just satisfy you | P |
| Can't you arrange to come down | C |
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| Can't you arrange it old Pard | K |
| Pigeonhole Blackstone and Kent | K |
| Here we have 'Breitmann ' and Ward | K |
| Twain Burdette Nye and content | K |
| Can't you forget you're a Judge | E |
| And put by your dolorous frown | C |
| And tan your wan face in the smile of a friend | K |
| Can't you arrange to come down | C |
James Whitcomb Riley
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