Corncob Jones Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCCCC DEFEDE CGCGCG HIHIHI FJDJDJ DKDKD LCLCLC CDCDC EC CE MKMKM DCDCDC DMDMDM NENENE MEMEME DCDCD CCCCCCAn Oldham County Weather Philosopher | A |
'Who is Corncob Jones ' you say | B |
Beateningest man and talkingest | C |
Talk and talk th' enduring day | C |
Never even stop to rest | C |
Keep on talking that a way | C |
Talk you dead or do his best | C |
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We were there in that old barn | D |
Loafing 'round and swapping lies | E |
There was Wiseheart talking corn | F |
Me and Raider boosting ryes | E |
When old Corncob sprung a yarn | D |
Just to give us a surprise | E |
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'Why ' says he 'the twelvth of May | C |
'Bout ten year ago why I | G |
Rickolects it to the day | C |
By statistics hit wuz dry | G |
But hit must have rained I say | C |
'Cause well I remember why | G |
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'Fer that night it 'gin to blow | H |
And to rain an' rained a week | I |
When hit stopped hit 'gun to show | H |
Here an' there a clearin' streak | I |
Then set in to sleet an' snow | H |
Blamededst weather simply freak | I |
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'An' the fruit wuz killt the corn | F |
Gin'ral an' the gardin truck | J |
That 's experience an' no yarn | D |
You can't put hit down to luck | J |
But to Natur' whar we larn | D |
Common sense we do by Huck | J |
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'Why as I have said to fore ' | - |
Here he aimed a streak of brown | D |
At a hornet on the floor | K |
Got him too 'you put hit down | D |
To experience nothin' more | K |
Whut they call hit there in town | D |
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'Natur' jest rubs in the thing | L |
Jest won't let a man ferget | C |
Keeps hit up spring arter spring | L |
Why Jest 'cause now you' kin bet | C |
Blamed blackberries bloom by Jing | L |
They jest need the cold an' wet | C |
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'Every time the twelvth o' May | C |
Cums around hit 's bound to rain | D |
Almost to the very day | C |
Then hit turns an' snows again | D |
That 's experience I say | C |
Whut we gets here in the main ' | - |
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'Talkin' 'bout experience | E |
It don't help so much ' I said | C |
'Not as much as common sense ' | - |
Here old Corncob shook his head | C |
Spat and said 'Well that depen's | E |
On whut common sense is Ned ' | - |
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Then old Wiseheart says says he | M |
'Common sense is somethin' more | K |
Common sense comes nat'rally | M |
Nothin' helps hit that I 'm shore | K |
But hit helps the one you see | M |
That 't was borned with rich er poor ' | - |
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Then says Corncob 'Talkin' now | D |
Of experience That wuz what | C |
We wuz talkin' 'bout Somehow | D |
You got stalded missed the spot | C |
Barbwired both yerself an' plough | D |
An' ye have n't proved a jot | C |
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'You can' t git along you know | D |
'Thout experience Whar 'd we be | M |
If we missed hit Helps me so | D |
I kin reckin acktually | M |
When hit 's goin' to rain er snow | D |
Er turn hot er cold ' says he | M |
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'Jest by thinkin' back by Jack | N |
Hit 's not whut the weather is | E |
But whut hit wuz oncet long back | N |
In the times whut's gone Gee whiz | E |
No man needs an almanack | N |
If he only notices | E |
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'Weather Why sirs summer er fall | M |
We kin lay hit by the heels | E |
Hit cums easy natural | M |
Jest like settin' down ter meals | E |
Jest take notice that is all | M |
Do n't rely on how hit feels | E |
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'That 's experience Larn to know | D |
Whut is whut an' then take heed | C |
So it cums we reap an' sow | D |
Jest accordin' as we 've seed | C |
How 't wuz done long years ago | D |
An' so profit that's my creed ' | - |
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Blamededst man you ever met | C |
This old Corncob Had a way | C |
Of convincing you you bet | C |
By just facts as you might say | C |
Tell you when 'twas dry or wet | C |
And what 't would be to the day | C |
Madison Julius Cawein
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