Home Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDEEFFBBGGHHIIDCJKLL CCMM HHNNBBOOPPQQ RRQQSSQQHHTT QQCDQQUU QQQQVV WWXXCD| From Farmer Harrington's Calendar | A |
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| JULY | B |
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| Back to the old old homestead isn't it queer | C |
| But stranger things than that have happened here | D |
| The old farm after giving oil by stream | E |
| Until the world itself would almost seem | E |
| About to lose its progress smooth and true | F |
| And creak upon its axis first we knew | F |
| Closed business in the twinkling of an eye | B |
| And every blessed well we had went dry | B |
| Then all the oil springs that my neighbors had | G |
| The example followed be it good or bad | G |
| And the whole region round here high and low | H |
| So full of wealth a few short months ago | H |
| And men to get their circumstances oiled | I |
| Is now poor farm land pretty nearly spoiled | I |
| The little town a mile away from here | D |
| Where we sold eggs and butter many a year | C |
| And feared the neighbors' hens might over lay | J |
| And glut the market some sad Saturday | K |
| From a few grown up folks a small child crop | L |
| A church post office store and blacksmith shop | L |
| This village grew to be within a year | C |
| A town of fifteen thousand people clear | C |
| It had its banks its street cars and its gas | M |
| And other wonders cities bring to pass | M |
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| Its house yards sold for twice as much I know | H |
| As my old farm was worth three years ago | H |
| But the town did not grow on brain or soil | N |
| But floated on a hidden sea of oil | N |
| Which ebbed away one evening on the sly | B |
| And left the city stranded high and dry | B |
| And now the place is crumbling to the gaze | O |
| A modern ruin in these modern days | O |
| No banks no street cars no hotels in town | P |
| The mansions have been burned or taken down | P |
| It shows how soon all greatness is unmade | Q |
| When once it gets upon the down hill grade | Q |
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| So we've come back to take our former farm | R |
| Fix it up somehow coax back its old charm | R |
| And live here by the city noise unstirred | Q |
| To cogitate on what we've seen and heard | Q |
| While living in a bustle and a brawl | S |
| That sometimes hardly let us think at all | S |
| The old house was kept whole in every part | Q |
| I had that put in writing on the start | Q |
| And though the farm seems very much as though | H |
| An earthquake had lived here a year or so | H |
| We mean to try and make it seem some week | T |
| More as it did before it sprung a leak | T |
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| First thing I said when home began to fit | Q |
| And thus afford us time to breathe a bit | Q |
| We've been out to the city now my dear | C |
| Let's bring a small part of the city here | D |
| I'm going on this very day to send | Q |
| For several children such as need a friend | Q |
| And have them come out here and get some air | U |
| With room to turn around and some to spare | U |
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| I wrote some men and women in the city | Q |
| Who give poor children help as well as pity | Q |
| Send out as many as you can afford | Q |
| And every one shall have a month's clean board | Q |
| And carry back from out our plenteous store | V |
| Enough to keep himself a fortnight more | V |
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| The first night that we sat expecting them | W |
| I did what some whole families would condemn | W |
| I moulded up my feelings into rhyme | X |
| In something less than fifteen minutes' time | X |
| Then voiced it to whoever would come near | C |
| I'll put the imposition right in here | D |
William Mckendree Carleton
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