What "old Santa" Overheard Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFGHH IIJJKKLLKK| 'Tis said old Santa Claus one time | A |
| Told this joke on himself in rhyme | A |
| One Christmas in the early din | B |
| That ever leads the morning in | B |
| I heard the happy children shout | C |
| In rapture at the toys turned out | C |
| Of bulging little socks and shoes | D |
| A joy at which I could but choose | D |
| To listen enviously because | E |
| I'm always just Old Santa Claus | E |
| But ere my rising sigh had got | F |
| To its first quaver at the thought | G |
| It broke in laughter as I heard | H |
| A little voice chirp like a bird | H |
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| Old Santa's mighty good I know | I |
| And awful rich and he can go | I |
| Down ever' chimbly anywhere | J |
| In all the world But I don't care | J |
| I wouldn't trade with him and be | K |
| Old Santa Clause and him be me | K |
| Fer all his toys and things and I | L |
| Know why and bet you he knows why | L |
| They wuz no Santa Clause when he | K |
| Wuz ist a little boy like me | K |
James Whitcomb Riley
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