Wash Lowry's Reminiscence Poem Rhyme Scheme

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And 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
	-
'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
	-
'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
	-
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
	-
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
	-
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 '	-
	-
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
	-
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
	-
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

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