Seein' Things Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEECC FFGGCC HHIICCJJAACC

I ain't afeard uv snakes or toads or bugs or worms or miceA
An' things 'at girls are skeered uv I think are awful niceA
I'm pretty brave I guess an' yet I hate to go to bedB
For when I'm tucked up warm an' snug an' when my prayers are saidB
Mother tells me Happy dreams and takes away the lightC
An' leaves me lyin' all alone an' seein' things at nightC
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Sometimes they're in the corner sometimes they're by the doorD
Sometimes they're all a standin' in the middle uv the floorD
Sometimes they are a sittin' down sometimes they're walkin' roundE
So softly an' so creepylike they never make a soundE
Sometimes they are as black as ink an' other times they're whiteC
But the color ain't no difference when you see things at nightC
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Once when I licked a feller 'at had just moved on our streetF
An' father sent me up to bed without a bite to eatF
I woke up in the dark an' saw things standin' in a rowG
A lookin' at me cross eyed an' p'intin' at me soG
Oh my I wuz so skeered that time I never slep' a miteC
It's almost alluz when I'm bad I see things at nightC
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Lucky thing I ain't a girl or I'd be skeered to deathH
Bein' I'm a boy I duck my head an' hold my breathH
An' I am oh so sorry I'm a naughty boy an' thenI
I promise to be better an' I say my prayers againI
Gran'ma tells me that's the only way to make it rightC
When a feller has been wicked an' sees things at nightC
An' so when other naughty boys would coax me into sinJ
I try to skwush the Tempter's voice 'at urges me withinJ
An' when they's pie for supper or cakes 'at 's big an' niceA
I want to but I do not pass my plate f'r them things twiceA
No ruther let Starvation wipe me slowly out o' sightC
Than I should keep a livin' on an' seein' things at nightC

Eugene Field



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