Gone With A Handsomer Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC CCDD EEFF GGHH GGII CCJJ G GKK EEHH LLMN IIOO PPQQ CCRR SSTT UVFF WWGG XXOO Y Z A2 A2HH AAB2B2 A C2 D2D2UV E2E2FF F2JOHN | 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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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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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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William Mckendree Carleton
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