Uncle Mart's Poem - The Old Snow-man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDCECDBAB DFGHDIAJKLCLAMLMNLAL OLPLLQRQLSTSULSLLLAL VWLXYSTSLLLLWZLZLLLL URLRA2B2C2UD2E2F2G2N RH2RLLAL DI2DI2LJ2LTLSLS ALWLB2XB2WQK2L2M2MLA L| Ho the old Snow Man | A |
| That Noey Bixler made | B |
| He looked as fierce and sassy | C |
| As a soldier on parade | B |
| 'Cause Noey when he made him | D |
| While we all wuz gone you see | C |
| He made him jist a purpose | E |
| Jist as fierce as he could be | C |
| But when we all got ust to him | D |
| Nobody wuz afraid | B |
| Of the old Snow Man | A |
| That Noey Bixler made | B |
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| 'Cause Noey told us 'bout him | D |
| And what he made him fer | F |
| He'd come to feed that morning | G |
| He found we wuzn't here | H |
| And so the notion struck him | D |
| When we all come taggin' home | I |
| 'Tud s'prise us ef a' old Snow Man | A |
| 'Ud meet us when we come | J |
| So when he'd fed the stock and milked | K |
| And ben back home and chopped | L |
| His wood and et his breakfast he | C |
| Jist grabbed his mitts and hopped | L |
| Right in on that air old Snow Man | A |
| That he laid out he'd make | M |
| Er bust a trace a tryin' jist | L |
| Fer old acquaintance sake | M |
| But work like that wuz lots more fun | N |
| He said than when he played | L |
| Ho the old Snow Man | A |
| That Noey Bixler made | L |
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| He started with a big snow ball | O |
| And rolled it all around | L |
| And as he rolled more snow 'ud stick | P |
| And pull up off the ground | L |
| He rolled and rolled all round the yard | L |
| 'Cause we could see the track | Q |
| All wher' the snow come off you know | R |
| And left it wet and black | Q |
| He got the Snow Man's legs part rolled | L |
| In front the kitchen door | S |
| And then he hat to turn in then | T |
| And roll and roll some more | S |
| He rolled the yard all round agin | U |
| And round the house at that | L |
| Clean round the house and back to wher' | S |
| The blame legs half wuz at | L |
| He said he missed his dinner too | L |
| Jist clean fergot and stayed | L |
| There workin' Ho the old Snow Man | A |
| That Noey Bixler made | L |
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| And Noey said he hat to hump | V |
| To git the top half on | W |
| The legs half When he did he said | L |
| His wind wuz purt' nigh gone | X |
| He said I jucks he jist drapped down | Y |
| There on the old porch floor | S |
| And panted like a dog And then | T |
| He up and rolled some more | S |
| The last batch that wuz fer his head | L |
| And time he'd got it right | L |
| And clumb and fixed it on he said | L |
| He hat to quit fer night | L |
| And then he said he'd kep' right on | W |
| Ef they'd ben any moon | Z |
| To work by So he crawled in bed | L |
| And could a slep' tel noon | Z |
| He wuz so plum wore out he said | L |
| But it wuz washin' day | L |
| And hat to cut a cord o' wood | L |
| 'Fore he could git away | L |
| - | |
| But last he got to work agin | U |
| With spade and gouge and hoe | R |
| And trowel too All tools 'ud do | L |
| What Noey said you know | R |
| He cut his eyebrows out like cliffs | A2 |
| And his cheekbones and chin | B2 |
| Stuck furder out and his old nose | C2 |
| Stuck out as fur agin | U |
| He made his eyes o' walnuts | D2 |
| And his whiskers out o' this | E2 |
| Here buggy cushion stuffin' moss | F2 |
| The teacher says it is | G2 |
| And then he made a' old wood' gun | N |
| Set keerless like you know | R |
| Acrost one shoulder kindo' like | H2 |
| Big Foot er Adam Poe | R |
| Er mayby Simon Girty | L |
| The dinged old Renegade | L |
| Wooh the old Snow Man | A |
| That Noey Bixler made | L |
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| And there he stood all fierce and grim | D |
| A stern heroic form | I2 |
| What was the winter blast to him | D |
| And what the driving storm | I2 |
| What wonder that the children pressed | L |
| Their faces at the pane | J2 |
| And scratched away the frost in pride | L |
| To look on him again | T |
| What wonder that with yearning bold | L |
| Their all of love and care | S |
| Went warmest through the keenest cold | L |
| To that Snow Man out there | S |
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| But the old Snow Man | A |
| What a dubious delight | L |
| He grew at last when Spring came on | W |
| And days waxed warm and bright | L |
| Alone he stood all kith and kin | B2 |
| Of snow and ice were gone | X |
| Alone with constant teardrops in | B2 |
| His eyes and glittering on | W |
| His thin pathetic beard of black | Q |
| Grief in a hopeless cause | K2 |
| Hope hope is for the man that dies | L2 |
| What for the man that thaws | M2 |
| O Hero of a hero's make | M |
| Let marble melt and fade | L |
| But never you you old Snow Man | A |
| That Noey Bixler made | L |
James Whitcomb Riley
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