When The Green Gits Back In The Trees Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCACAAA ADAEFAFAAA GHGIJAJAAA| In spring when the green gits back in the trees | A |
| And the sun comes out and stays | B |
| And yer boots pulls on with a good tight squeeze | A |
| And you think of yer barefoot days | B |
| When you ort to work and you want to not | C |
| And you and yer wife agrees | A |
| It's time to spade up the garden lot | C |
| When the green gits back in the trees | A |
| Well work is the least o' my idees | A |
| When the green you know gits back in the trees | A |
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| When the green gits back in the trees and bees | A |
| Is a buzzin' aroun' agin | D |
| In that kind of a lazy go as you please | A |
| Old gait they bum roun' in | E |
| When the groun's all bald where the hay rick stood | F |
| And the crick 's riz and the breeze | A |
| Coaxes the bloom in the old dogwood | F |
| And the green gits back in the trees | A |
| I like as I say in sich scenes as these | A |
| The time when the green gits back in the trees | A |
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| When the whole tail feathers o' wintertime | G |
| Is all pulled out and gone | H |
| And the sap it thaws and begins to climb | G |
| And the sweat it starts out on | I |
| A feller's forred a gittin' down | J |
| At the old spring on his knees | A |
| I kind o' like jes' a loaferin' roun' | J |
| When the green gits back in the trees | A |
| Jes' a potterin' roun' as I durn please | A |
| When the green you know gits back in the trees | A |
James Whitcomb Riley
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