Up And Down Old Brandywine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAACCAA DEDEDDFF GEGEDDAA EAEADDEE HDHDIIAA DCDCDDJJ KLKLHHAA MDMDAAD AEAECCAA NMOMDDJJ PCPCEEAA QREDEESS AEAETTAAUp and down old Brandywine | A |
In the days 'at's past and gone | B |
With a dad burn hook and line | A |
And a saplin' pole swawn | A |
I've had more fun to the square | C |
Inch than ever ANYwhere | C |
Heaven to come can't discount MINE | A |
Up and down old Brandywine | A |
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Hain't no sense in WISHIN' yit | D |
Wisht to goodness I COULD jes | E |
'Gee' the blame' world round and git | D |
Back to that old happiness | E |
Kindo' drive back in the shade | D |
'The old Covered Bridge' there laid | D |
'Crosst the crick and sorto' soak | F |
My soul over hub and spoke | F |
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Honest now it hain't no DREAM | G |
'At I'm wantin' but THE FAC'S | E |
As they wuz the same old stream | G |
And the same old times i jacks | E |
Gim me back my bare feet and | D |
Stonebruise too And scratched and tanned | D |
And let hottest dog days shine | A |
Up and down old Brandywine | A |
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In and on betwixt the trees | E |
'Long the banks pour down yer noon | A |
Kindo' curdled with the breeze | E |
And the yallerhammer's tune | A |
And the smokin' chokin' dust | D |
O' the turnpike at its wusst | D |
SATURD'YS say when it seems | E |
Road's jes jammed with country teams | E |
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Whilse the old town fur away | H |
'Crosst the hazy pastur' land | D |
Dozed like in the heat o' day | H |
Peaceful' as a hired hand | D |
Jolt the gravel th'ough the floor | I |
O' the old bridge grind and roar | I |
With yer blame percession line | A |
Up and down old Brandywine | A |
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Souse me and my new straw hat | D |
Off the foot log what I care | C |
Fist shoved in the crown o' that | D |
Like the old Clown ust to wear | C |
Wouldn't swop it fer a' old | D |
Gin u wine raal crown o' gold | D |
Keep yer KING ef you'll gim me | J |
Jes the boy I ust to be | J |
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Spill my fishin' worms er steal | K |
My best 'goggle eye ' but you | L |
Can't lay hands on joys I feel | K |
Nibblin' like they ust to do | L |
So in memory to day | H |
Same old ripple lips away | H |
At my 'cork' and saggin' line | A |
Up and down old Bradywine | A |
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There the logs is round the hill | M |
Where 'Old Irvin' ust to lift | D |
Out sunfish from daylight till | M |
Dewfall 'fore he'd leave 'The Drift' | D |
And give US a chance and then | A |
Kindo' fish back home again | A |
Ketchin' 'em jes left and right | D |
Where WE hadn't got 'a bite ' | - |
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Er 'way windin' out and in | A |
Old path th'ough the iurnweeds | E |
And dog fennel to yer chin | A |
Then come suddent th'ough the reeds | E |
And cat tails smack into where | C |
Them air woods hogs ust to scare | C |
Us clean 'crosst the County line | A |
Up and down old Brandywine | A |
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But the dim roar o' the dam | N |
It 'ud coax us furder still | M |
To'rds the old race slow and ca'm | O |
Slidin' on to Huston's mill | M |
Where I'spect 'The Freeport crowd' | D |
Never WARMED to us er 'lowed | D |
We wuz quite so overly | J |
Welcome as we aimed to be | J |
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Still it 'peared like ever'thing | P |
Fur away from home as THERE | C |
Had more RELISH like i jing | P |
Fish in stream er bird in air | C |
O them rich old bottom lands | E |
Past where Cowden's Schoolhouse stands | E |
Wortermelons MASTER MINE | A |
Up and down old Brandywine | A |
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And sich pop paws Lumps o' raw | Q |
Gold and green jes oozy th'ough | R |
With ripe yaller like you've saw | E |
Custard pie with no crust to | D |
And jes GORGES o' wild plums | E |
Till a feller'd suck his thumbs | E |
Clean up to his elbows MY | S |
ME SOME MORE ER LEM ME DIE | S |
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Up and down old Brandywine | A |
Stripe me with pokeberry juice | E |
Flick me with a pizenvine | A |
And yell 'Yip ' and lem me loose | E |
Old now as I then wuz young | T |
'F I could sing as I HAVE sung | T |
Song 'ud surely ring DEE VINE | A |
Up and down old Brandywine | A |
James Whitcomb Riley
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