A Hundred Collars Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMDNBOPC QRS TU V W W WXY ZA2 OB2 C C2D2OE2 F2G2 H2I2 J2 I2K2 L2 L2 D D I2M2I2N2I2 B2I2I2I2I2I2I2O2P2Q2 R2S2Z ST2 KT2U2T2V2FI2FW2X2 I2K I2Y2 Z2W A3DDFB3I2C3D3I2 I2O2 FSFFI2 ZF DI2E3F3F3 G3 O2Q2I2I2I2DH3I2O2I2I 2B H3I3X2J3I2 O2 SF K3 BL3M3DQ2N3O3P3KQ3R3S 3Z2I2Q2T3ZKBN3DZU3KV 3I2 I2V2 KI2BW3X3J2SF F A3SY3Z3FFR2 V2 S D3 V2A4B4O2Z3C4B4SI2SZ3 C4KLancaster bore him such a little town | A |
Such a great man It doesn't see him often | B |
Of late years though he keeps the old homestead | C |
And sends the children down there with their mother | D |
To run wild in the summer a little wild | E |
Sometimes he joins them for a day or two | F |
And sees old friends he somehow can't get near | G |
They meet him in the general store at night | H |
Pre occupied with formidable mail | I |
Rifling a printed letter as he talks | J |
They seem afraid He wouldn't have it so | K |
Though a great scholar he's a democrat | L |
If not at heart at least on principle | M |
Lately when coming up to Lancaster | D |
His train being late he missed another train | N |
And had four hours to wait at Woodsville Junction | B |
After eleven o'clock at night Too tired | O |
To think of sitting such an ordeal out | P |
He turned to the hotel to find a bed | C |
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No room the night clerk said Unless | Q |
Woodsville's a place of shrieks and wandering lamps | R |
And cars that shook and rattle and one hotel | S |
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You say 'unless ' | - |
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Unless you wouldn't mind | T |
Sharing a room with someone else | U |
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Who is it | V |
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A man | W |
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So I should hope What kind of man | W |
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I know him he's all right A man's a man | W |
Separate beds of course you understand | X |
The night clerk blinked his eyes and dared him on | Y |
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Who's that man sleeping in the office chair | Z |
Has he had the refusal of my chance | A2 |
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He was afraid of being robbed or murdered | O |
What do you say | B2 |
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I'll have to have a bed | C |
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The night clerk led him up three flights of stairs | C2 |
And down a narrow passage full of doors | D2 |
At the last one of which he knocked and entered | O |
Lafe here's a fellow wants to share your room | E2 |
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Show him this way I'm not afraid of him | F2 |
I'm not so drunk I can't take care of myself | G2 |
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The night clerk clapped a bedstead on the foot | H2 |
This will be yours Good night he said and went | I2 |
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Lafe was the name I think | J2 |
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Yes Layfayette | I2 |
You got it the first time And yours | K2 |
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Magoon | L2 |
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Doctor Magoon | L2 |
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A Doctor | D |
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Well a teacher | D |
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Professor Square the circle till you're tired | I2 |
Hold on there's something I don't think of now | M2 |
That I had on my mind to ask the first | I2 |
Man that knew anything I happened in with | N2 |
I'll ask you later don't let me forget it | I2 |
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The Doctor looked at Lafe and looked away | B2 |
A man A brute Naked above the waist | I2 |
He sat there creased and shining in the light | I2 |
Fumbling the buttons in a well starched shirt | I2 |
I'm moving into a size larger shirt | I2 |
I've felt mean lately mean's no name for it | I2 |
I just found what the matter was to night | I2 |
I've been a choking like a nursery tree | O2 |
When it outgrows the wire band of its name tag | P2 |
I blamed it on the hot spell we've been having | Q2 |
'Twas nothing but my foolish hanging back | R2 |
Not liking to own up I'd grown a size | S2 |
Number eighteen this is What size do you wear | Z |
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The Doctor caught his throat convulsively | S |
Oh ah fourteen fourteen | T2 |
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Fourteen You say so | K |
I can remember when I wore fourteen | T2 |
And come to think I must have back at home | U2 |
More than a hundred collars size fourteen | T2 |
Too bad to waste them all You ought to have them | V2 |
They're yours and welcome let me send them to you | F |
What makes you stand there on one leg like that | I2 |
You're not much furtherer than where Kike left you | F |
You act as if you wished you hadn't come | W2 |
Sit down or lie down friend you make me nervous | X2 |
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The Doctor made a subdued dash for it | I2 |
And propped himself at bay against a pillow | K |
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Not that way with your shoes on Kike's white bed | I2 |
You can't rest that way Let me pull your shoes off | Y2 |
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Don't touch me please I say don't touch me please | Z2 |
I'll not be put to bed by you my man | W |
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Just as you say Have it your own way then | A3 |
'My man' is it You talk like a professor | D |
Speaking of who's afraid of who however | D |
I'm thinking I have more to lose than you | F |
If anything should happen to be wrong | B3 |
Who wants to cut your number fourteen throat | I2 |
Let's have a show down as an evidence | C3 |
Of good faith There is ninety dollars | D3 |
Come if you're not afraid | I2 |
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I'm not afraid | I2 |
There's five that's all I carry | O2 |
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I can search you | F |
Where are you moving over to Stay still | S |
You'd better tuck your money under you | F |
And sleep on it the way I always do | F |
When I'm with people I don't trust at night | I2 |
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Will you believe me if I put it there | Z |
Right on the counterpane that I do trust you | F |
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You'd say so Mister Man I'm a collector | D |
My ninety isn't mine you won't think that | I2 |
I pick it up a dollar at a time | E3 |
All round the country for the Weekly News | F3 |
Published in Bow You know the Weekly News | F3 |
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Known it since I was young | G3 |
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Then you know me | O2 |
Now we are getting on together talking | Q2 |
I'm sort of Something for it at the front | I2 |
My business is to find what people want | I2 |
They pay for it and so they ought to have it | I2 |
Fairbanks he says to me he's editor | D |
Feel out the public sentiment he says | H3 |
A good deal comes on me when all is said | I2 |
The only trouble is we disagree | O2 |
In politics I'm Vermont Democrat | I2 |
You know what that is sort of double dyed | I2 |
The News has always been Republican | B |
Fairbanks he says to me 'Help us this year ' | - |
Meaning by us their ticket 'No ' I says | H3 |
'I can't and won't You've been in long enough | I3 |
It's time you turned around and boosted us | X2 |
You'll have to pay me more than ten a week | J3 |
If I'm expected to elect Bill Taft | I2 |
I doubt if I could do it anyway ' | - |
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You seem to shape the paper's policy | O2 |
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You see I'm in with everybody know 'em all | S |
I almost know their farms as well as they do | F |
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You drive around It must be pleasant work | K3 |
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It's business but I can't say it's not fun | B |
What I like best's the lay of different farms | L3 |
Coming out on them from a stretch of woods | M3 |
Or over a hill or round a sudden corner | D |
I like to find folks getting out in spring | Q2 |
Raking the dooryard working near the house | N3 |
Later they get out further in the fields | O3 |
Everything's shut sometimes except the barn | P3 |
The family's all away in some back meadow | K |
There's a hay load a coming when it comes | Q3 |
And later still they all get driven in | R3 |
The fields are stripped to lawn the garden patches | S3 |
Stripped to bare ground the apple trees | Z2 |
To whips and poles There's nobody about | I2 |
The chimney though keeps up a good brisk smoking | Q2 |
And I lie back and ride I take the reins | T3 |
Only when someone's coming and the mare | Z |
Stops when she likes I tell her when to go | K |
I've spoiled Jemima in more ways than one | B |
She's got so she turns in at every house | N3 |
As if she had some sort of curvature | D |
No matter if I have no errand there | Z |
She thinks I'm sociable I maybe am | U3 |
It's seldom I get down except for meals though | K |
Folks entertain me from the kitchen doorstep | V3 |
All in a family row down to the youngest | I2 |
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One would suppose they might not be as glad | I2 |
To see you as you are to see them | V2 |
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Oh | K |
Because I want their dollar I don't want | I2 |
Anything they've not got I never dun | B |
I'm there and they can pay me if they like | W3 |
I go nowhere on purpose I happen by | X3 |
Sorry there is no cup to give you a drink | J2 |
I drink out of the bottle not your style | S |
Mayn't I offer you | F |
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No no no thank you | F |
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Just as you say Here's looking at you then | A3 |
And now I'm leaving you a little while | S |
You'll rest easier when I'm gone perhaps | Y3 |
Lie down let yourself go and get some sleep | Z3 |
But first let's see what was I going to ask you | F |
Those collars who shall I address them to | F |
Suppose you aren't awake when I come back | R2 |
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Really friend I can't let you You may need them | V2 |
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Not till I shrink when they'll be out of style | S |
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But really I I have so many collars | D3 |
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I don't know who I rather would have have them | V2 |
They're only turning yellow where they are | A4 |
But you're the doctor as the saying is | B4 |
I'll put the light out Don't you wait for me | O2 |
I've just begun the night You get some sleep | Z3 |
I'll knock so fashion and peep round the door | C4 |
When I come back so you'll know who it is | B4 |
There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people | S |
I don't want you should shoot me in the head | I2 |
What am I doing carrying off this bottle | S |
There now you get some sleep | Z3 |
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He shut the door | C4 |
The Doctor slid a little down the pillow | K |
Robert Frost
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