Wash Lowry's Reminiscence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL MMMMNMIM OPQPRNRN STSTUPU MGMGMVMV EMEMWIWI MPMPXYXY MNMNZGZG MA2MA2PB2PB2 MJMJTC2TC2And you're the poet of this concern | A |
I've seed your name in print | B |
A dozen times but I'll be dern | A |
I'd 'a' never 'a' took the hint | B |
O' the size you are fer I'd pictured you | C |
A kind of a tallish man | D |
Dark complected and sallor too | C |
And on the consumpted plan | D |
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'Stid o' that you're little and small | E |
With a milk and water face | F |
'Thout no snap in your eyes at all | E |
Er nothin' to suit the case | F |
Kind o'look like a I don't know | G |
One o' these fair ground chaps | H |
That runs a thingamajig to blow | G |
Er a candy stand perhaps | H |
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'Ll I've allus thought that poetry | I |
Was a sort of a some disease | J |
Fer I knowed a poet once and he | I |
Was techy and hard to please | J |
And moody like and kindo' sad | K |
And didn't seem to mix | L |
With other folks like his health was bad | K |
Er his liver out o' fix | L |
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Used to teach fer a livelihood | M |
There's folks in Pipe Crick yit | M |
Remembers him and he was good | M |
At cipherin' I'll admit | M |
And posted up in G'ography | N |
But when it comes to tact | M |
And gittin' along with the school you see | I |
He fizzled and that's a fact | M |
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Boarded with us fer fourteen months | O |
And in all that time I'll say | P |
We never catched him a sleepin' once | Q |
Er idle a single day | P |
But shucks It made him worse and worse | R |
A writin' rhymes and stuff | N |
And the school committee used to furse | R |
'At the school warn't good enough | N |
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He warn't as strict as he ought to been | S |
And never was known to whip | T |
Or even to keep a scholard in | S |
At work at his penmanship | T |
'Stid o' that he'd learn 'em notes | U |
And have 'em every day | P |
Spilin' hymns and a splittin' th'oats | U |
With his 'Do sol fa me ra ' | - |
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Tel finally it was jest agreed | M |
We'd have to let him go | G |
And we all felt bad we did indeed | M |
When we come to tell him so | G |
Fer I remember he turned so white | M |
And smiled so sad somehow | V |
I someway felt it wasn't right | M |
And I'm shore it wasn't now | V |
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He hadn't no complaints at all | E |
He bid the school adieu | M |
And all o' the scholards great and small | E |
Was mighty sorry too | M |
And when he closed that afternoon | W |
They sung some lines that he | I |
Had writ a purpose to some old tune | W |
That suited the case you see | I |
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And then he lingered and delayed | M |
And wouldn't go away | P |
And shet himself in his room and stayed | M |
A writin' from day to day | P |
And kep' a gittin' stranger still | X |
And thinner all the time | Y |
You know as any feller will | X |
On nothin' else but rhyme | Y |
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He didn't seem adzactly right | M |
Er like he was crossed in love | N |
He'd work away night after night | M |
And walk the floor above | N |
We'd hear him read and talk and sing | Z |
So lonesome like and low | G |
My woman's cried like ever'thing | Z |
'Way in the night you know | G |
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And when at last he tuck to bed | M |
He'd have his ink and pen | A2 |
'So's he could coat the muse' he said | M |
'He'd die contented then' | A2 |
And jest before he past away | P |
He read with dyin' gaze | B2 |
The epitaph that stands to day | P |
To show you where he lays | B2 |
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And ever sence then I've allus thought | M |
That poetry's some disease | J |
And them like you that's got it ought | M |
To watch their q's and p's | J |
And leave the sweets of rhyme to sup | T |
On the wholesome draughts of toil | C2 |
And git your health recruited up | T |
By plowin' in rougher soil | C2 |
James Whitcomb Riley
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