Little Willie Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEDEFEFGDGD HIJIKDKD LILIEDED MEMENDND| When Willie was a little boy | A |
| No more than five or six | B |
| Right constantly he did annoy | A |
| His mother with his tricks | B |
| Yet not a picayune cared I | C |
| For what he did or said | D |
| Unless as happened frequently | E |
| The rascal wet the bed | D |
| Closely he cuddled up to me | E |
| And put his hands in mine | F |
| Till all at once I seemed to be | E |
| Afloat in seas of brine | F |
| Sabean odors clogged the air | G |
| And filled my soul with dread | D |
| Yet I could only grin and bear | G |
| When Willie wet the bed | D |
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| 'Tis many times that rascal has | H |
| Soaked all the bedclothes through | I |
| Whereat I'd feebly light the gas | J |
| And wonder what to do | I |
| Yet there he lay so peaceful like | K |
| God bless his curly head | D |
| I quite forgave the little tyke | K |
| For wetting of the bed | D |
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| Ah me those happy days have flown | L |
| My boy's a father too | I |
| And little Willies of his own | L |
| Do what he used to do | I |
| And I Ah all that's left for me | E |
| Is dreams of pleasure fled | D |
| Our boys ain't what they used to be | E |
| When Willie wet the bed | D |
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| Had I my choice no shapely dame | M |
| Should share my couch with me | E |
| No amorous jade of tarnished fame | M |
| Nor wench of high degree | E |
| But I would choose and choose again | N |
| The little curly head | D |
| Who cuddled close beside me when | N |
| He used to wet the bed | D |
Eugene Field
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