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Gone With A Handsomer Man. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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JOHN	A
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I've worked in the field all day a plowin' the stony streak	B
I've scolded my team till I'm hoarse I've tramped till my legs are weak	B
I've choked a dozen swears so's not to tell Jane fibs	C
When the plow p'int struck a stone and the handles punched my ribs	C
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I've put my team in the barn and rubbed their sweaty coats	C
I've fed 'em a heap of hay and half a bushel of oats	C
And to see the way they eat makes me like eatin' feel	D
And Jane won't say to night that I don't make out a meal	D
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Well said the door is locked but here she's left the key	E
Under the step in a place known only to her and me	E
I wonder who's dyin' or dead that she's hustled off pell mell	F
But here on the table's a note and probably this will tell	F
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Good God my wife is gone my wife is gone astray	G
The letter it says Good bye for I'm a going away	G
I've lived with you six months John and so far I've been true	H
But I'm going away to day with a handsomer man than you	H
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A han'somer man than me Why that ain't much to say	G
There's han'somer men than me go past here every day	G
There's han'somer men than me I ain't of the han'some kind	I
But a lovin'er man than I was I guess she'll never find	I
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Curse her curse her I say and give my curses wings	C
May the words of love I've spoke be changed to scorpion stings	C
Oh she filled my heart with joy she emptied my heart of doubt	J
And now with a scratch of a pen she lets my heart's blood out	J
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Curse her curse her say I she'll some time rue this day	G
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CURSE HER CURSE HER SAY I SHE'LL SOME TIME RUE THIS DAY	G
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She'll some time learn that hate is a game that two can play	G
And long before she dies she'll grieve she ever was born	K
And I'll plow her grave with hate and seed it down to scorn	K
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As sure as the world goes on there'll come a time when she	E
Will read the devilish heart of that han'somer man than me	E
And there'll be a time when he will find as others do	H
That she who is false to one can be the same with two	H
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And when her face grows pale and when her eyes grow dim	L
And when he is tired of her and she is tired of him	L
She'll do what she ought to have done and coolly count the cost	M
And then she'll see things clear and know what she has lost	N
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And thoughts that are now asleep will wake up in her mind	I
And she will mourn and cry for what she has left behind	I
And maybe she'll sometimes long for me for me but no	O
I've blotted her out of my heart and I will not have it so	O
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And yet in her girlish heart there was somethin' or other she had	P
That fastened a man to her and wasn't entirely bad	P
And she loved me a little I think although it didn't last	Q
But I mustn't think of these things I've buried 'em in the past	Q
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I'll take my hard words back nor make a bad matter worse	C
She'll have trouble enough she shall not have my curse	C
But I'll live a life so square and I well know that I can	R
That she always will sorry be that she went with that han'somer man	R
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Ah here is her kitchen dress it makes my poor eyes blur	S
It seems when I look at that as if 'twas holdin' her	S
And here are her week day shoes and there is her week day hat	T
And yonder's her weddin' gown I wonder she didn't take that	T
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'Twas only this mornin' she came and called me her dearest dear	U
And said I was makin' for her a regular paradise here	V
O God if you want a man to sense the pains of hell	F
Before you pitch him in just keep him in heaven a spell	F
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Good bye I wish that death had severed us two apart	W
You've lost a worshiper here you've crushed a lovin' heart	W
I'll worship no woman again but I guess I'll learn to pray	G
And kneel as you used to kneel before you run away	G
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And if I thought I could bring my words on heaven to bear	X
And if I thought I had some little influence there	X
I would pray that I might be if it only could be so	O
As happy and gay as I was a half an hour ago	O
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JANE	Y
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entering	Z
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Why John what a litter here you've thrown things all around	A2
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WHY JOHN WHAT A LITTER HERE YOU'VE THROWN THINGS ALL AROUND	A2
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Come what's the matter now and what 've you lost or found	A2
And here's my father here a waiting for supper too	H
I've been a riding with him he's that handsomer man than you	H
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Ha ha Pa take a seat while I put the kettle on	A
And get things ready for tea and kiss my dear old John	A
Why John you look so strange Come what has crossed your track	B2
I was only a joking you know I'm willing to take it back	B2
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JOHN	A
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aside	C2
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Well now if this ain't a joke with rather a bitter cream	D2
It seems as if I'd woke from a mighty ticklish dream	D2
And I think she smells a rat for she smiles at me so queer	U
I hope she don't good Lord I hope that they didn't hear	V
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'Twas one of her practical drives she thought I'd understand	E2
But I'll never break sod again till I get the lay of the land	E2
But one thing's settled with me to appreciate heaven well	F
'Tis good for a man to have some fifteen minutes of hell	F
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JOHNNY RICH	F2
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Raise the light a little Jim	L
For it's getting rather dim	L
And with such a storm a howlin' 'twill not do to douse the glim	L
Hustle down the curtains Lu	H
Poke the fire a little Su	H
This is somethin' of a flurry mother somethin' of a whew	H
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Goodness gracious how it pours	C
How it beats ag'in the doors	C
You will have a hard one Jimmy when you go to do the chores	C
Do not overfeed the gray	G
Give a plenty to the bay	G
And be careful with your lantern when you go among the hay	G
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See the horses have a bed	G2
When you've got 'em fairly fed	G2
Feed the cows that's in the stable and the sheep that's in the shed	G2
Give the spotted cow some meal	D
Where the brindle can not steal	D
For she's greedy as a porker and as slipp'ry as an eel	D
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Hang your lantern by the ring	Z
On a nail or on a string	Z
For the Durham calf 'll bunt it if there's any such a thing	Z
He's a handsome one to see	E
And a knowin' one is he	E
I stooped over t'other morning and he up and went for me	E
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Rover thinks he hears a noise	C
Just keep still a minute boys	C
Nellie hold your tongue a second and be silent with your toys	C
Stop that barkin' now you whelp	H2
Or I'll kick you till you yelp	H2
Yes I hear it 'tis somebody that's callin' out for help	H2
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Get the lantern Jim and Tom	L
Mother keep the babies calm	L
And we'll follow up that halloa and we'll see where it is from	L
'Tis a hairy sort of night	I2
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'TIS A HAIRY SORT OF NIGHT FOR A MAN TO FACE AND FIGHT	I2
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For a man to face and fight	I2
And the wind is blowin' Hang it Jimmy bring another light	I2
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Ah 'twas you then Johnny Rich	F2
Yelling out at such a pitch	F2
For a decent man to help you while you fell into the ditch	F2
'Tisn't quite the thing to say	G
But we ought to've let you lay	G
While your drunken carcass died a drinkin' water any way	G
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And to see you on my floor	J2
And to hear the way you snore	J2
Now we've lugged you under shelter and the danger all is o'er	S
And you lie there quite resigned	I
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AND YOU LIE THERE QUITE RESIGNED WHISKY DEAF AND WHISKY BLIND	I
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Whisky deaf and whisky blind	I
And it will not hurt your feelin's so I guess I'll free my mind	I
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Do you mind you thievin' dunce	G
How you robbed my orchard once	G
Takin' all the biggest apples leavin' all the littlest runts	G
Do you mind my melon patch	K2
How you gobbled the whole batch	K2
Stacked the vines and sliced the greenest melons just to raise the	L2
scratch	K2
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Do you think you drunken wag	M2
It was any thing to brag	M2
To be cornered in my hen roost with two pullets in a bag	M2
You are used to dirty dens	G
You have often slept in pens	G
I've a mind to take you out there now and roost you with the hens	G
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Do you call to mind with me	E
How one night you and your three	E
Took my wagon all to pieces for to hang it on a tree	E
How you hung it up you eels	G
Straight and steady by the wheels	G
I've a mind to take you out there now and hang you by your heels	G
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How the Fourth of last July	N2
When you got a little high	N2
You went back to Wilson's counter when you thought he wasn't nigh	N2
How he heard some specie chink	O2
And was on you in a wink	O2
And you promised if he'd hush it that you never more would drink	O2
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Do you mind our temperance hall	P2
How you're always sure to call	P2
And recount your reformation with the biggest speech of all	P2
How you talk and how you sing	Z
That the pledge is just the thing	Z
How you sign it every winter and then smash it every spring	Z
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Do you mind how Jennie Green	Q2
Was as happy as a queen	Q2
When you walked with her on Sunday looking sober straight and clean	Q2
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WHEN YOU WALKED WITH HER ON SUNDAY LOOKING SOBER STRAIGHT AND CLEAN	Q2
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How she cried out half her sight	I2
When you staggered by next night	I2
Twice as dirty as a serpent and a hundred times as tight	I2
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How our hearts with pleasure warmed	R2
When your mother though it stormed	R2
Run up here one day to tell us that you truly had reformed	R2
How that very self same day	G
When upon her homeward way	G
She run on you where you'd hidden full three quarters o'er the bay	G
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Oh you little whisky keg	S2
Oh you horrid little egg	S2
You're goin' to destruction with your swiftest foot and leg	S2
I've a mind to take you out	J
Underneath the water spout	J
Just to rinse you up a little so you'll know what you're about	J
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But you've got a handsome eye	N2
And although I can't tell why	N2
Somethin' somewhere in you always lets you get another try	N2
So for all that I have said	G2
I'll not douse you but instead	G2
I will strip you I will rub you I will put you into bed	G2