Lonesome Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBAA CCDDAA EEDDFF DDGGAA HHIIAA| Mother 's gone a visitin' to spend a month er two | A |
| An' oh the house is lonesome ez a nest whose birds has flew | A |
| To other trees to build ag'in the rooms seem jest so bare | B |
| That the echoes run like sperrits from the kitchen to the stair | B |
| The shetters flap more lazy like 'n what they used to do | A |
| Sence mother 's gone a visitin' to spend a month er two | A |
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| We 've killed the fattest chicken an' we've cooked her to a turn | C |
| We 've made the richest gravy but I jest don't give a durn | C |
| Fur nothin' 'at I drink er eat er nothin' 'at I see | D |
| The food ain't got the pleasant taste it used to have to me | D |
| They 's somep'n' stickin' in my throat ez tight ez hardened glue | A |
| Sence mother's gone a visitin' to spend a month er two | A |
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| The hollyhocks air jest ez pink they 're double ones at that | E |
| An' I wuz prouder of 'em than a baby of a cat | E |
| But now I don't go near 'em though they nod an' blush at me | D |
| Fur they 's somep'n' seems to gall me in their keerless sort o' glee | D |
| An' all their fren'ly noddin' an' their blushin' seems to say | F |
| You 're purty lonesome John old boy sence mother 's gone away | F |
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| The neighbors ain't so fren'ly ez it seems they 'd ort to be | D |
| They seem to be a lookin' kinder sideways like at me | D |
| A kinder feared they 'd tech me off ez ef I wuz a match | G |
| An' all because 'at mother 's gone an' I 'm a keepin' batch | G |
| I 'm shore I don't do nothin' worse 'n what I used to do | A |
| 'Fore mother went a visitin' to spend a month er two | A |
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| The sparrers ac's more fearsome like an' won't hop quite so near | H |
| The cricket's chirp is sadder an' the sky ain't ha'f so clear | H |
| When ev'nin' comes I set an' smoke tell my eyes begin to swim | I |
| An' things aroun' commence to look all blurred an' faint an' dim | I |
| Well I guess I 'll have to own up 'at I 'm feelin' purty blue | A |
| Sence mother's gone a visitin' to spend a month er two | A |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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