Lady Button-eyes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FFBBGAHIEE JJKLMMMMEE NAMMOOPPEE QQCCDDHIEEWhen the busy day is done | A |
And my weary little one | A |
Rocketh gently to and fro | B |
When the night winds softly blow | B |
And the crickets in the glen | C |
Chirp and chirp and chirp again | C |
When upon the haunted green | D |
Fairies dance around their queen | D |
Then from yonder misty skies | E |
Cometh Lady Button Eyes | E |
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Through the murk and mist and gloam | F |
To our quiet cozy home | F |
Where to singing sweet and low | B |
Rocks a cradle to and fro | B |
Where the clock's dull monotone | G |
Telleth of the day that's done | A |
Where the moonbeams hover o'er | H |
Playthings sleeping on the floor | I |
Where my weary wee one lies | E |
Cometh Lady Button Eyes | E |
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Cometh like a fleeting ghost | J |
From some distant eerie coast | J |
Never footfall can you hear | K |
As that spirit fareth near | L |
Never whisper never word | M |
From that shadow queen is heard | M |
In ethereal raiment dight | M |
From the realm of fay and sprite | M |
In the depth of yonder skies | E |
Cometh Lady Button Eyes | E |
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Layeth she her hands upon | N |
My dear weary little one | A |
And those white hands overspread | M |
Like a veil the curly head | M |
Seem to fondle and caress | O |
Every little silken tress | O |
Then she smooths the eyelids down | P |
Over those two eyes of brown | P |
In such soothing tender wise | E |
Cometh Lady Button Eyes | E |
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Dearest feel upon your brow | Q |
That caressing magic now | Q |
For the crickets in the glen | C |
Chirp and chirp and chirp again | C |
While upon the haunted green | D |
Fairies dance around their queen | D |
And the moonbeams hover o'er | H |
Playthings sleeping on the floor | I |
Hush my sweet from yonder skies | E |
Cometh Lady Button Eyes | E |
Eugene Field
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