When Lide Married _him_ Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEFG CCHHIIJJ KKLLA M| When Lide married him w'y she had to jes dee fy | A |
| The whole poppilation But she never bat' an eye | B |
| Her parents begged and threatened she must give him up that he | C |
| Wuz jes 'a common drunkard ' And he wuz appearantly | D |
| Swore they'd chase him off the place | E |
| Ef he ever showed his face | E |
| Long after she'd eloped with him and married him fer shore | F |
| When Lide married him it wuz ' Katy bar the door ' | G |
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| When Lide married him Well she had to go and be | C |
| A hired girl in town somewheres while he tromped round to see | C |
| What he could git that he could do you might say jes sawed wood | H |
| From door to door that's what he done 'cause that wuz best he could | H |
| And the strangest thing i jing | I |
| Wuz he didn't drink a thing | I |
| But jes got down to bizness like he someway wanted to | J |
| When Lide married him like they warned her not to do | J |
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| When Lide married him er ruther had ben married | K |
| A little up'ards of a year some feller come and carried | K |
| That hired girl away with him a ruther stylish feller | L |
| In a bran new green spring wagon with the wheels striped red and yeller | L |
| And he whispered as they driv | A |
| Tords the country ' Now we'll live ' | - |
| And somepin' else she laughed to hear though both her eyes wuz dim | M |
| 'Bout ' trustin' Love and Heav'n above sence Lide married him ' | - |
James Whitcomb Riley
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