Tugg Martin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCCCAA A CCDCCCC AA A CCEECCFGGFF H ICJKCCC H CLMMLM CNCNMCCCMOMO H CP QHQHHRRRR H MSFMFFMSMSC| I | A |
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| Tugg Martin's tough No doubt o' that | B |
| And down there at | B |
| The town he come from word's bin sent | C |
| Advisin' this here Settle ment | C |
| To kindo' humor Tugg and not | C |
| To git him hot | C |
| Jest pass his imperfections by | A |
| And he's as good as pie | A |
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| II | A |
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| They claim he's wanted back there Yit | C |
| The officers they mostly quit | C |
| Insistin' when | D |
| They notice Tugg's so back'ard and | C |
| Sorto' gives 'em to understand | C |
| He druther not A Deputy | C |
| The slickest one you ever see | C |
| Tackled him last 'disguisin' then ' | - |
| As Tugg says 'as a gentlemen ' | - |
| You 'd ort o' hear Tugg tell it My | A |
| I thought I'd die | A |
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| III | A |
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| The way it wuz Tugg and the rest | C |
| The boys wuz jest | C |
| A kindo' gittin' thawed out down | E |
| At 'Guss's Place ' fur end o' town | E |
| One night when first we knowed | C |
| Some feller rode | C |
| Up in a buggy at the door | F |
| And hollered fer some one to come | G |
| And fetch him some | G |
| Red licker out And whirped and swore | F |
| That colt he drove wuz ' Thompson's ' shore | F |
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| IV | H |
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| Guss went out and come in agin | I |
| And filled a pint and tuck it out | C |
| Stayed quite a spell then peeked back in | J |
| Half hid like where the light wuz dim | K |
| And jieuked his head | C |
| At Tugg and said | C |
| 'Come out a minute here's a gent | C |
| Wants you to take a drink with him ' | - |
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| V | H |
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| Well Tugg laid down his cards and went | C |
| In fact we all | L |
| Got up you know | M |
| Startin' to go | M |
| When in reels Guss aginst the wall | L |
| As white as snow | M |
| Gaspin' ' He's tuck Tugg wher's my gun ' | - |
| And sir outside we heerd | C |
| The hoss snort and kick up his heels | N |
| Like he wuz skeerd | C |
| And then the buggy wheels | N |
| Scrape and then Tugg's voice hollerun' | M |
| 'I'm bested Good bye fellers ' 'Peared | C |
| S' all fired suddent | C |
| Nobody couldn't | C |
| Jest git it fixed tel hoss and man | M |
| Buggy and Tugg off through the dark | O |
| Went like the devil beatin' tan | M |
| Bark | O |
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| VI | H |
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| What could we do We filed back to | C |
| The bar And Guss jest looked at us | P |
| And we looked back 'The same as you ' | - |
| Still sayin' nothin' And the sap | Q |
| It stood in every eye | H |
| And every hat and cap | Q |
| Went off as we teched glasses solemnly | H |
| And Guss says he | H |
| 'Ef it's 'good bye' with Tugg fer shore I say | R |
| God bless him Er ef they | R |
| Aint railly no need to pray | R |
| I'm not reniggin board's the play | R |
| And here's God bless him anyway ' | - |
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| VII | H |
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| It must a bin an hour er so | M |
| We all set there | S |
| Talkin o' pore | F |
| Old Tugg you know | M |
| 'At never wuz ketched up before | F |
| When all slow like the door | F |
| Knob turned and Tugg come shamblin' in | M |
| Hand cuffed' 'at's what he wuz I swear | S |
| Yit smilin ' like he hadn't bin | M |
| Away at all And when we ast him where | S |
| The Deputy wuz at 'I don't know where ' Tugg said | C |
| 'All I know is he's dead ' | - |
James Whitcomb Riley
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