The Music Box Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HCHI JKJK LMLM NNNN ONON NINI NPQP| AT six long ere the wintry dawn | A |
| There sounded through the silent hall | B |
| To where I lay with blankets drawn | A |
| Above my ears a plaintive call | B |
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| The Urchin in the eagerness | C |
| Of three years old could not refrain | D |
| Awake he straightway yearned to dress | E |
| And frolic with his clockwork train | D |
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| I heard him with a sullen shock | F |
| His sister by her usual plan | G |
| Had piped us aft at o'clock | F |
| I vowed to quench the little man | G |
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| I leaned above him somewhat stern | H |
| And spoke I fear with emphasis | C |
| Ah how much better parents learn | H |
| To seal one's sensure with a kiss | I |
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| Again the house was dark and still | J |
| Again I lay in slumber's snare | K |
| When down the hall I heard a trill | J |
| A tiny tinkling tuneful air | K |
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| His music box His best loved toy | L |
| His crib companion every night | M |
| And now he turned to it for joy | L |
| While waiting for the lagging light | M |
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| How clear and how absurdly sad | N |
| Those tingling pricks of sound unrolled | N |
| They chirped and quavered as the lad | N |
| His lonely little heart consoled | N |
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| Columbia the Ocean's Gem | O |
| Its only tune shrilled sweet and faint | N |
| He cranked the chimes admiring them | O |
| In vigil gay without complaint | N |
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| The treble music piped and stirred | N |
| The leaping air that was his bliss | I |
| And as I most contritely heard | N |
| I thanked the all unconscious Swiss | I |
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| The needled jets of melody | N |
| Rang slowlier and died away | P |
| The Urchin slept and it was I | Q |
| Who lay and waited for the day | P |
Christopher Morley
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