When The Hearse Comes Back Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDCECCD CCFFGGDHECCD CCCCIIDJECCD KKCCLLDMECC| A thing 'at's 'bout as tryin' as a healthy man kin meet | A |
| Is some poor feller's funeral a joggin' 'long the street | A |
| The slow hearse and the hosses slow enough to say at least | B |
| Fer to even tax the patience of gentleman deceased | B |
| The low scrunch of the gravel and the slow grind of the wheels | C |
| The slow slow go of ev'ry woe 'at ev'rybody feels | C |
| So I ruther like the contrast when I hear the whip lash crack | D |
| A quickstep fer the hosses | C |
| When the | E |
| Hearse | C |
| Comes | C |
| Back | D |
| - | |
| Meet it goin' to'rds the cimet'ry you'll want to drap yer eyes | C |
| But ef the plumes don't fetch you it'll ketch you otherwise | C |
| You'll haf to see the caskit though you'd ort to look away | F |
| And 'conomize and save yer sighs fer any other day | F |
| Yer sympathizin' won't wake up the sleeper from his rest | G |
| Yer tears won't thaw them hands o' his 'at's froze acrost his breast | G |
| And this is why when airth and sky's a gittin blurred and black | D |
| I like the flash and hurry | H |
| When the | E |
| Hearse | C |
| Comes | C |
| Back | D |
| - | |
| It's not 'cause I don't 'preciate it ain't no time fer jokes | C |
| Ner 'cause I' got no common human feelin' fer the folks | C |
| I've went to funerals myse'f and tuk on some perhaps | C |
| Fer my hearth's 'bout as mal'able as any other chap's | C |
| I've buried father mother But I'll haf to jes' git you | I |
| To 'excuse me ' as the feller says The p'int I'm drivin' to | I |
| Is simply when we're plum broke down and all knocked out o' whack | D |
| It he'ps to shape us up like | J |
| When the | E |
| Hearse | C |
| Comes | C |
| Back | D |
| - | |
| The idy Wadin round here over shoe mouth deep in woe | K |
| When they's a graded 'pike o' joy and sunshine don't you know | K |
| When evening strikes the pastur' cows'll pull out fer the bars | C |
| And skittish like from out the night'll prance the happy stars | C |
| And so when my time comes to die and I've got ary friend | L |
| 'At wants expressed my last request I'll mebby rickommend | L |
| To drive slow ef they haf to goin' 'long the out'ard track | D |
| But I'll smile and say 'You speed 'em | M |
| When the | E |
| Hearse | C |
| Comes | C |
| Back ' | - |
James Whitcomb Riley
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