The Island Of Endless Play Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC DD BB CC AA EE F GGC HHAAB IIBB BB FF B FF BBAA| Said Willie to Tom 'Let us hie away | A |
| To the wonderful Island of Endless Play | A |
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| It lies off the border of 'No School Land' | B |
| And abounds with pleasures I understand | B |
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| There boys go swimming whenever they please | C |
| In a lovely river right under the trees | C |
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| And marbles are free no one has to buy | D |
| And kites of all sizes are ready to fly | D |
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| We sail down the Isthmus of Idle Delight | B |
| We sail and we sail for a day and a night | B |
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| And then if favored by billows and breeze | C |
| We land in the harbor of Do as you please | C |
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| And their lies the Island of Endless Play | A |
| With no one to say to us Must or Nay | A |
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| Books are not known in that land so fair | E |
| Teachers are stoned if they set foot there | E |
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| Hurrah for the Island so glad and free | F |
| That is the country for you and me ' | - |
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| So away went Willie and Tom together | G |
| On a pleasure boat in the lazy weather | G |
| And they sailed in the teeth of a friendly breeze | C |
| Right into the harbor of 'Do as you please ' | - |
| Where boats and tackle and marbles and kites | H |
| Were waiting them there in this Land of Delights | H |
| They dwelt on the Island of Endless Play | A |
| For five long years then one sad day | A |
| A strange dark ship sailed up to the strand | B |
| And 'Ho for the voyage to Stupid Land ' | - |
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| The Captain cried with a terrible noise | I |
| As he seized the frightened and struggling boys | I |
| And threw them into the dark Ship's hold | B |
| And off and away sailed the Captain bold | B |
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| They vainly begged him to let them out | B |
| He answered only with scoff and shout | B |
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| 'Boys that don't study or work ' said he | F |
| 'Must sail one day down the Ignorant Sea | F |
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| To Stupid Land by the No Book strait | B |
| With Captain Time on the Pitiless Fate ' | - |
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| Then he let out the sails and away went the three | F |
| Over the waters of Ignorant Sea | F |
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| Out and away to Stupid Land | B |
| And they live there yet I understand | B |
| And there's where every one goes they say | A |
| Who seeks the Island of Endless Play | A |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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