Good-children Street Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEAA FGFGAA DHDHAA DEDEAA IJIJAA KLKLAAThere's a dear little home in Good Children street | A |
My heart turneth fondly to day | B |
Where tinkle of tongues and patter of feet | A |
Make sweetest of music at play | B |
Where the sunshine of love illumines each face | C |
And warms every heart in that old fashioned place | C |
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For dear little children go romping about | D |
With dollies and tin tops and drums | E |
And my how they frolic and scamper and shout | D |
Till bedtime too speedily comes | E |
Oh days they are golden and days they are fleet | A |
With little folk living in Good Children street | A |
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See here comes an army with guns painted red | F |
And swords caps and plumes of all sorts | G |
The captain rides gaily and proudly ahead | F |
On a stick horse that prances and snorts | G |
Oh legions of soldiers you're certain to meet | A |
Nice make believe soldiers in Good Children street | A |
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And yonder Odette wheels her dolly about | D |
Poor dolly I'm sure she is ill | H |
For one of her blue china eyes has dropped out | D |
And her voice is asthmatic'ly shrill | H |
Then too I observe she is minus her feet | A |
Which causes much sorrow in Good Children street | A |
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'T is so the dear children go romping about | D |
With dollies and banners and drums | E |
And I venture to say they are sadly put out | D |
When an end to their jubilee comes | E |
Oh days they are golden and days they are fleet | A |
With little folk living in Good Children street | A |
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But when falleth night over river and town | I |
Those little folk vanish from sight | J |
And an angel all white from the sky cometh down | I |
And guardeth the babes through the night | J |
And singeth her lullabies tender and sweet | A |
To the dear little people in Good Children Street | A |
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Though elsewhere the world be o'erburdened with care | K |
Though poverty fall to my lot | L |
Though toil and vexation be always my share | K |
What care I they trouble me not | L |
This thought maketh life ever joyous and Sweet | A |
There's a dear little home in Good Children street | A |
Eugene Field
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