A Hundred Collars Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMDNBOPCQ RSTUVWXXXYZA2B2OC2CD 2E2OF2G2H2I2J2K2J2L2 M2M2DDJ2N2J2O2J2C2J2 J2J2J2J2J2P2Q2R2S2T2 A2SU2KU2V2U2W2FJ2FX2 Y2J2KJ2Z2A3XB3DDFC3J 2D3E3J2J2P2FSFFJ2A2F DJ2F3G3G3H3P2R2J2J2J 2DI3J2P2J2J2BTI3J3Y2 K3J2TP2SFL3BM3N3DR2O 3P3Q3KR3S3T3A3J2R2U3 A2KBO3DA2V3KW3J2J2W2 KJ2BX3Y3K2SFFB3SZ3A4 FFS2W2SE3W2B4C4P2A4D 4C4SJ2SA4D4KLancaster 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 |
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 |
You say 'unless ' | T |
Unless you wouldn't mind | U |
Sharing a room with someone else | V |
Who is it | W |
A man | X |
So I should hope What kind of man | X |
I know him he's all right A man's a man | X |
Separate beds of course you understand | Y |
The night clerk blinked his eyes and dared him on | Z |
Who's that man sleeping in the office chair | A2 |
Has he had the refusal of my chance | B2 |
He was afraid of being robbed or murdered | O |
What do you say | C2 |
I'll have to have a bed | C |
The night clerk led him up three flights of stairs | D2 |
And down a narrow passage full of doors | E2 |
At the last one of which he knocked and entered | O |
Lafe here's a fellow wants to share your room | F2 |
Show him this way I'm not afraid of him | G2 |
I'm not so drunk I can't take care of myself | H2 |
The night clerk clapped a bedstead on the foot | I2 |
This will be yours Good night he said and went | J2 |
Lafe was the name I think | K2 |
Yes Layfayette | J2 |
You got it the first time And yours | L2 |
Magoon | M2 |
Doctor Magoon | M2 |
A Doctor | D |
Well a teacher | D |
Professor Square the circle till you're tired | J2 |
Hold on there's something I don't think of now | N2 |
That I had on my mind to ask the first | J2 |
Man that knew anything I happened in with | O2 |
I'll ask you later don't let me forget it | J2 |
The Doctor looked at Lafe and looked away | C2 |
A man A brute Naked above the waist | J2 |
He sat there creased and shining in the light | J2 |
Fumbling the buttons in a well starched shirt | J2 |
I'm moving into a size larger shirt | J2 |
I've felt mean lately mean's no name for it | J2 |
I just found what the matter was to night | J2 |
I've been a choking like a nursery tree | P2 |
When it outgrows the wire band of its name tag | Q2 |
I blamed it on the hot spell we've been having | R2 |
'Twas nothing but my foolish hanging back | S2 |
Not liking to own up I'd grown a size | T2 |
Number eighteen this is What size do you wear | A2 |
The Doctor caught his throat convulsively | S |
Oh ah fourteen fourteen | U2 |
Fourteen You say so | K |
I can remember when I wore fourteen | U2 |
And come to think I must have back at home | V2 |
More than a hundred collars size fourteen | U2 |
Too bad to waste them all You ought to have them | W2 |
They're yours and welcome let me send them to you | F |
What makes you stand there on one leg like that | J2 |
You're not much furtherer than where Kike left you | F |
You act as if you wished you hadn't come | X2 |
Sit down or lie down friend you make me nervous | Y2 |
The Doctor made a subdued dash for it | J2 |
And propped himself at bay against a pillow | K |
Not that way with your shoes on Kike's white bed | J2 |
You can't rest that way Let me pull your shoes off | Z2 |
Don't touch me please I say don't touch me please | A3 |
I'll not be put to bed by you my man | X |
Just as you say Have it your own way then | B3 |
'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 | C3 |
Who wants to cut your number fourteen throat | J2 |
Let's have a show down as an evidence | D3 |
Of good faith There is ninety dollars | E3 |
Come if you're not afraid | J2 |
I'm not afraid | J2 |
There's five that's all I carry | P2 |
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 | J2 |
Will you believe me if I put it there | A2 |
Right on the counterpane that I do trust you | F |
You'd say so Mister Man I'm a collector | D |
My ninety isn't mine you won't think that | J2 |
I pick it up a dollar at a time | F3 |
All round the country for the Weekly News | G3 |
Published in Bow You know the Weekly News | G3 |
Known it since I was young | H3 |
Then you know me | P2 |
Now we are getting on together talking | R2 |
I'm sort of Something for it at the front | J2 |
My business is to find what people want | J2 |
They pay for it and so they ought to have it | J2 |
Fairbanks he says to me he's editor | D |
Feel out the public sentiment he says | I3 |
A good deal comes on me when all is said | J2 |
The only trouble is we disagree | P2 |
In politics I'm Vermont Democrat | J2 |
You know what that is sort of double dyed | J2 |
The News has always been Republican | B |
Fairbanks he says to me 'Help us this year ' | T |
Meaning by us their ticket 'No ' I says | I3 |
'I can't and won't You've been in long enough | J3 |
It's time you turned around and boosted us | Y2 |
You'll have to pay me more than ten a week | K3 |
If I'm expected to elect Bill Taft | J2 |
I doubt if I could do it anyway ' | T |
You seem to shape the paper's policy | P2 |
You see I'm in with everybody know 'em all | S |
I almost know their farms as well as they do | F |
You drive around It must be pleasant work | L3 |
It's business but I can't say it's not fun | B |
What I like best's the lay of different farms | M3 |
Coming out on them from a stretch of woods | N3 |
Or over a hill or round a sudden corner | D |
I like to find folks getting out in spring | R2 |
Raking the dooryard working near the house | O3 |
Later they get out further in the fields | P3 |
Everything's shut sometimes except the barn | Q3 |
The family's all away in some back meadow | K |
There's a hay load a coming when it comes | R3 |
And later still they all get driven in | S3 |
The fields are stripped to lawn the garden patches | T3 |
Stripped to bare ground the apple trees | A3 |
To whips and poles There's nobody about | J2 |
The chimney though keeps up a good brisk smoking | R2 |
And I lie back and ride I take the reins | U3 |
Only when someone's coming and the mare | A2 |
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 | O3 |
As if she had some sort of curvature | D |
No matter if I have no errand there | A2 |
She thinks I'm sociable I maybe am | V3 |
It's seldom I get down except for meals though | K |
Folks entertain me from the kitchen doorstep | W3 |
All in a family row down to the youngest | J2 |
One would suppose they might not be as glad | J2 |
To see you as you are to see them | W2 |
Oh | K |
Because I want their dollar I don't want | J2 |
Anything they've not got I never dun | B |
I'm there and they can pay me if they like | X3 |
I go nowhere on purpose I happen by | Y3 |
Sorry there is no cup to give you a drink | K2 |
I drink out of the bottle not your style | S |
Mayn't I offer you | F |
No no no thank you | F |
Just as you say Here's looking at you then | B3 |
And now I'm leaving you a little while | S |
You'll rest easier when I'm gone perhaps | Z3 |
Lie down let yourself go and get some sleep | A4 |
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 | S2 |
Really friend I can't let you You may need them | W2 |
Not till I shrink when they'll be out of style | S |
But really I I have so many collars | E3 |
I don't know who I rather would have have them | W2 |
They're only turning yellow where they are | B4 |
But you're the doctor as the saying is | C4 |
I'll put the light out Don't you wait for me | P2 |
I've just begun the night You get some sleep | A4 |
I'll knock so fashion and peep round the door | D4 |
When I come back so you'll know who it is | C4 |
There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people | S |
I don't want you should shoot me in the head | J2 |
What am I doing carrying off this bottle | S |
There now you get some sleep | A4 |
He shut the door | D4 |
The Doctor slid a little down the pillow | K |
Robert Lee Frost
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