Farmer Stebbins On The Bowery Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDD EEFFGG HHIJKK LLKKMM NNFFOO NNPPFF QQRRSS TTUUVV WWXXYY ZZA2A2B2B2 ZZC2C2BB D2D2E2E2F2F2 G2H2I2I2TT J2J2G2XBB ZZJ2J2J2J2 J2 K2K2| DEAR COUSIN JOHN | A |
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| We got here safe my worthy wife an' me | B |
| An' then I looked the village through to see what I could see | B |
| I rode upon the cur'us track with stations all up stairs | C |
| I walked through Wall Street all its length an' saw no bulls or bears | C |
| I patronized a red nosed chap with manners very queer | D |
| Who hadn't had a thing to eat for somethin' like a year | D |
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| I saw the road commissioners to work upon a bridge | E |
| A million times as large as that we built at Tompkins' Ridge | E |
| I'm told that they are makin' it though maybe that's all fun | F |
| To use the coming century an' hope to get it done | F |
| When who should up an' grasp my hand with face of genuine joy | G |
| But Cousin Jeroboam Jones my cousin's oldest boy | G |
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| I had not seen him years an' years no wonder he looked strange | H |
| His face an' form in some respects had undergone a change | H |
| But then there wasn't a chance of doubt that that was him because | I |
| If not how should he ever know that I was who I was | J |
| We brushed our old acquaintance up an' soon was at our ease | K |
| A wanderin' all about the place as cozy as you please | K |
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| It's nicer far in foreign towns than 'tis to be alone | L |
| To walk with one whose blood proceeds from sources near your own | L |
| A sim'lar temp'rature of heart a sort of family ease | K |
| Enables you to work your tongue as lib'ral as you please | K |
| And so I found myself quite soon uncommonly at home | M |
| Describin' all my business through to Cousin Jerobo'm | M |
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| He listened very docile like an' hadn't much to say | N |
| But what he did was vent'red in a satisfact'ry way | N |
| He'd severed somewhat from his kin an' sort o' lost the run | F |
| But he recalled the Stebbinses when mentioned one by one | F |
| An' takin' him inside an' out our family scarcely owns | O |
| A relative more relishin' than Jeroboam Jones | O |
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| He's teacher in a Sunday school he told me by the way | N |
| Which has a room above a store that's open every day | N |
| For if he says we come across a child that needs our care | P |
| We cannot wait till Sunday comes we join 'em then an' there | P |
| An' if you want to see the way our worthy cause is run | F |
| Come in an' take a little look our 'social's' just begun | F |
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| The scholars hadn't come as yet the Superintendent though | Q |
| Was sittin' at a table like an' bowed extremely low | Q |
| An' heard the praise on poor old me my cousin had to tell | R |
| An' said he joyed to meet a friend of one he loved so well | R |
| An' I talked back an' for a time our converse did not cease | S |
| A regular three cornered gush of friendship love an' peace | S |
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| An' then he showed me how they run their grab bags an' all such | T |
| We have the same at home you know although not near so much | T |
| An' then he had some val'ables on numbers that you saw | U |
| With figures correspondin'ly in envelopes to draw | U |
| I gin him fifty cents to help a cause I dearly hold | V |
| An' drew a velvet hymn book with a clasp resemblin' gold | V |
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| My cousin pressed my hand with some congratulatin' jokes | W |
| And said Ah me the Stebbinses was always lucky folks | W |
| But after all their shrewdness is the thing that lets them win | X |
| Which made me proud though I didn't see just where the shrewd came in | X |
| But buyin' a five dollar book at that unheard of price | Y |
| An' helpin' of the cause meanwhile was unsuspected nice | Y |
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| Whereat the Superintendent said You're lucky I allow | Z |
| I'll have to charge five dollars for a chance to draw here now | Z |
| Whereat my cousin Jeroboam remarked If 'tisn't wrong | A2 |
| I'll buy a draw for Cousin Steb to help the cause along | A2 |
| I shook my head but he would do't an' sure as I'm alive | B2 |
| I drawed a good ten dollar bill for Cousin Jones's five | B2 |
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| Whereat the Superintendent said You're lucky men I vow | Z |
| A hundred dollars I must charge for every drawing now | Z |
| An' fingerin' the envelopes one opened just a grain | C2 |
| And I discerned the number uncommon black and plain | C2 |
| An' on the other number by glancin' I could see | B |
| Five good crisp hundr'd dollar bills a waitin' there for me | B |
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| To make four hundred dollars clear an' help the children too | D2 |
| Was somethin' that would surely seem desirable to do | D2 |
| With an unfailin' eagle eye a heart that swelled with hope | E2 |
| I watched an' saw the very place he put that envelope | E2 |
| I winked at Cousin Jeroboam I counted out the cash | F2 |
| An' drawed an' had that card revealed almost as quick as flash | F2 |
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| Oh sakes the second figure I had what I hadn't seen | G2 |
| A tail that made a of it 'twas Number | H2 |
| An' on them figures on the board there nothin' was in fact | I2 |
| Except a little pamphlet like an anti gamblin' tract | I2 |
| Which hadn't any money wuth an' won't be good for much | T |
| Except to keep my older boys from playin' cards an' such | T |
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| Now Cousin Jeroboam Jones was buried in surprise | J2 |
| An' walked a half a mile with me an' helped philosophize | J2 |
| An' says You come some other day we'll try that thing agin | G2 |
| We come 'thin part of one of it the next time we shall win | X |
| Then nearin' to a corner he took kindly leave o' me | B |
| Because of some new scholars there that he must go an' see | B |
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| I give you this experience John but please don't tell it now | Z |
| Let Tompkins take the chestnut horse an' sell the brindle cow | Z |
| An' gather up what cash besides I have a lyin' loose | J2 |
| An' send the whole of it to me for my immediate use | J2 |
| Do everything concerned in this in soft secretive tones | J2 |
| Direct it to New York in care of Jeroboam Jones | J2 |
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| A S | J2 |
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| A few days and the following one arrived | K2 |
| Which shows Sin's triumph sometimes is short lived | K2 |
William Mckendree Carleton
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