Breaking The Charm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIHH JJKKLLJJCCGGMMNNOPQQ GGGGRRCCBBGGSSBBSSRR SSSSBBTUBBBBDDMM| Caught Susanner whistlin' well | A |
| It's most nigh too good to tell | A |
| 'Twould 'a' b'en too good to see | B |
| Ef it had n't b'en fur me | B |
| Comin' up so soft an' sly | C |
| That she didn' hear me nigh | C |
| I was pokin' 'round that day | D |
| An' ez I come down the way | D |
| First her whistle strikes my ears | E |
| Then her gingham dress appears | E |
| So with soft step up I slips | F |
| Oh them dewy rosy lips | F |
| Ripe ez cherries red an' round | G |
| Puckered up to make the sound | G |
| She was lookin' in the spring | H |
| Whistlin' to beat anything | H |
| Kitty Dale er In the Sweet | I |
| I was jest so mortal beat | I |
| That I can't quite ricoleck | H |
| What the toon was but I 'speck | H |
| 'T was some hymn er other fur | J |
| Hymny things is jest like her | J |
| Well she went on fur awhile | K |
| With her face all in a smile | K |
| An' I never moved but stood | L |
| Stiller 'n a piece o' wood | L |
| Would n't wink ner would n't stir | J |
| But a gazin' right at her | J |
| Tell she turns an' sees me my | C |
| Thought at first she 'd try to fly | C |
| But she blushed an' stood her ground | G |
| Then a slyly lookin' round | G |
| She says Did you hear me Ben | M |
| Whistlin' woman crowin' hen | M |
| Says I lookin' awful stern | N |
| Then the red commenced to burn | N |
| In them cheeks o' hern Why la | O |
| Reddest red you ever saw | P |
| Pineys wa'n't a circumstance | Q |
| You 'd 'a' noticed in a glance | Q |
| She was pow'rful shamed an' skeart | G |
| But she looked so sweet an' peart | G |
| That a idee struck my head | G |
| So I up an' slowly said | G |
| Woman whistlin' brings shore harm | R |
| Jest one thing 'll break the charm | R |
| And what's that Oh my says I | C |
| I don't like to tell you Why | C |
| Says Susanner Well you see | B |
| It would kinder fall on me | B |
| Course I knowed that she 'd insist | G |
| So I says You must be kissed | G |
| By the man that heard you whistle | S |
| Everybody says that this 'll | S |
| Break the charm and set you free | B |
| From the threat'nin' penalty | B |
| She was blushin' fit to kill | S |
| But she answered kinder still | S |
| I don't want to have no harm | R |
| Please come Ben an' break the charm | R |
| Did I break that charm oh well | S |
| There's some things I must n't tell | S |
| I remember afterwhile | S |
| Her a sayin' with a smile | S |
| Oh you quit you sassy dunce | B |
| You jest caught me whistlin' once | B |
| Ev'ry sence that when I hear | T |
| Some one whistlin' kinder clear | U |
| I most break my neck to see | B |
| Ef it 's Susy but dear me | B |
| I jest find I 've b'en to chase | B |
| Some blamed boy about the place | B |
| Dad 's b'en noticin' my way | D |
| An' last night I heerd him say | D |
| We must send fur Dr Glenn | M |
| Mother somethin 's wrong with Ben | M |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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