To Young E. Allison - Bookman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEABFCEAGHGIGJJB KLCDEKLFFEAMNMOMJJL PQPPQ DRDDR STKST| The bookman he's a humming bird | A |
| His feasts are honey fine | B |
| With hi hilloo | C |
| And clover dew | D |
| And roses lush and rare | E |
| Hiss roses are the phrase and word | A |
| Of olden tomes divine | B |
| With hi and ho | F |
| And pinks ablow | C |
| And posies everywhere | E |
| The Bookman he's a humming bird | A |
| He steals from song to song | G |
| He scents the ripest blooming rhyme | H |
| And takes his heart along | G |
| And sacks all sweets of bursting verse | I |
| And ballads throng on throng | G |
| With ho and hey | J |
| And brook and brae | J |
| And brinks of shade and shine | B |
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| A humming bird the Bookman is | K |
| Though cumbrous gray and grim | L |
| With hi hilloo | C |
| And honey dew | D |
| And odors musty rare | E |
| He bends him o'er that page of his | K |
| As o'er the rose's rim | L |
| With hi and ho | F |
| And pinks aglow | F |
| And roses everywhere | E |
| Ay he's the featest humming bird | A |
| On airiest of wings | M |
| He poises pendent o'er the poem | N |
| That blossoms as it sings | M |
| God friend him as he dips his beak | O |
| In such delicious things | M |
| With ho and hey | J |
| And world away | J |
| And only dreams for him | L |
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| O friends of mine whose kindly words come to me | P |
| Voiced only in lost lisps of ink and pen | Q |
| If I had power to tell the good you do me | P |
| And how the blood you warm goes laughing through me | P |
| My tongue would babble baby talk again | Q |
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| And I would toddle round the world to meet you | D |
| Fall at your feet and clamber to your knees | R |
| And with glad happy hands would reach and greet you | D |
| And twine my arms about you and entreat you | D |
| For leave to weave a thousand rhymes like these | R |
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| A thousand rhymes enwrought of nought but presses | S |
| Of cherry lip and apple cheek and chin | T |
| And pats of honeyed palms and rare caresses | K |
| And all the sweets of which as Fancy guesses | S |
| She folds away her wings and swoons therein | T |
James Whitcomb Riley
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