Uncle Sammy. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBB DEFEE GHIHH JKCKK LMJMM NOFOO PQRQQ STUTT MKJVV WXMXX YUFUU FZFZZ FA2FA2B2 C2LYLL L ND2ND2D2 RE2FE2E2 F2G2PG2H2G2 NI2JI2I2 FJ2K2J2J2 JKPKK ML2ML2L2Some men were born for great things | A |
Some were born for small | B |
Some it is not recorded | C |
Why they were born at all | B |
But Uncle Sammy was certain he had a legitimate call | B |
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Some were born with a talent | D |
Some with scrip and land | E |
Some with a spoon of silver | F |
And some with a different brand | E |
But Uncle Sammy came holding an argument in each hand | E |
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Arguments sprouted within him | G |
And twinked in his little eye | H |
He lay and calmly debated | I |
When average babies cry | H |
And seemed to be pondering gravely whether to live or to die | H |
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But prejudiced on that question | J |
He grew from day to day | K |
And finally he concluded | C |
'Twas better for him to stay | K |
And so into life's discussion he reasoned and reasoned his way | K |
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Through childhood through youth into manhood | L |
Argued and argued he | M |
And he married a simple maiden | J |
Though scarcely in love was she | M |
But he reasoned the matter so clearly she hardly could help but agree | M |
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And though at first she was blooming | N |
And the new firm started strong | O |
And though Uncle Sammy loved her | F |
And tried to help her along | O |
She faded away in silence and 'twas evident something was wrong | O |
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Now Uncle Sammy was faithful | P |
And various remedies tried | Q |
He gave her the doctor's prescriptions | R |
And plenty of logic beside | Q |
But logic and medicine failed him and so one day she died | Q |
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He laid her away in the church yard | S |
So haggard and crushed and wan | T |
And reared her a costly tombstone | U |
With all of her virtues on | T |
And ought to have added A victim to arguments pro and con | T |
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For many a year Uncle Sammy | M |
Fired away at his logical forte | K |
Discussion was his occupation | J |
And altercation his sport | V |
He argued himself out of churches he argued himself into court | V |
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But alas for his peace and quiet | W |
One day when he went it blind | X |
And followed his singular fancy | M |
And slighted his logical mind | X |
And married a ponderous widow that wasn't of the arguing kind | X |
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Her sentiments all were settled | Y |
Her habits were planted and grown | U |
Her heart was a starved little creature | F |
That followed a will of her own | U |
And she raised a high hand with Sammy and proceeded to play it alone | U |
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Then Sammy he charged down upon her | F |
With all of his strength and his wit | Z |
And many a dextrous encounter | F |
And many a fair shoulder hit | Z |
But vain were his blows and his blowing he never could budge her a bit | Z |
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He laid down his premises round her | F |
He scraped at her with his saws | A2 |
He rained great facts upon her | F |
And read her the marriage laws | A2 |
But the harder he tried to convince her the harder and harder she was | B2 |
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She brought home all her preachers | C2 |
As many as ever she could | L |
With sentiments terribly settled | Y |
And appetites horribly good | L |
Who sat with him long at his table and explained to him where he stood | L |
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WHO SAT WITH HIM LONG AT HIS TABLE AND EXPLAINED TO HIM WHERE HE STOOD | L |
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And Sammy was not long in learning | N |
To follow the swing of her gown | D2 |
And came to be faithful in watching | N |
The phase of her smile and her frown | D2 |
And she with the heel of assertion soon tramped all his arguments down | D2 |
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And so with his life aspirations | R |
Thus suddenly brought to a check | E2 |
And so with the foot of his victor | F |
Unceasingly pressing his neck | E2 |
He wrote on his face I'm a victim and drifted a logical wreck | E2 |
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And farmers whom he had argued | F2 |
To corners tight and fast | G2 |
Would wink at each other and chuckle | P |
And grin at him as he passed | G2 |
As to say My ambitious old fellow your whiffletree's straightened at | H2 |
last | G2 |
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Old Uncle Sammy one morning | N |
Lay down on his comfortless bed | I2 |
And Death and he had a discussion | J |
And Death came out ahead | I2 |
And the fact that SHE failed to start him was only because he was dead | I2 |
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The neighbors laid out their old neighbor | F |
With homely but tenderest art | J2 |
And some of the oldest ones faltered | K2 |
And tearfully stood apart | J2 |
For the crusty old man had often unguardedly shown them his heart | J2 |
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But on his face an expression | J |
Of quizzical study lay | K |
As if he were sounding the angel | P |
Who traveled with him that day | K |
And laying the pipes down slyly for an argument on the way | K |
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And one new fashioned old lady | M |
Felt called upon to suggest | L2 |
That the angel might take Uncle Sammy | M |
And give him a good night's rest | L2 |
And then introduce him to Solomon and tell him to do his best | L2 |
Will Carleton
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