Dream Town Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFHAIJI KLKLJBMB NONOCBCB| Now who is ready to go with me | A |
| Off and away to dream town | B |
| Oh such a journey as that will be | A |
| All dressed in a snow white gown | B |
| No shoe or stocking they think it shocking | C |
| To wear such things in dream town street | D |
| For it's paved with posies and leaves of roses | E |
| So nothing can hurt your feet | D |
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| We leave our baggage and clothes behind | F |
| When we set out on this jaunt | G |
| The folks who live there are very kind | F |
| They give us whatever we want | H |
| Sometimes a dolly we take if she's jolly | A |
| And good all the day before | I |
| But they've dolls without number in that land of slumber | J |
| And of toys there's a wonderful store | I |
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| We shut up our eyes when we set out | K |
| Though why I never have guessed | L |
| There's some good reason I haven't a doubt | K |
| Since every one says it is best | L |
| I think we go faster and keep off disaster | J |
| By folding our eyelids down | B |
| By dropping that curtain I'm almost certain | M |
| The sooner we get to dream town | B |
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| Just inside of the city gate | N |
| Smiling and rosy and bright | O |
| The boys and the girls of dream town wait | N |
| To play with us all the night | O |
| So rocking and rocking without shoe or stocking | C |
| All dressed in a little white gown | B |
| Singing and humming we're coming we're coming | C |
| Into the gates of dream town | B |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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