Seein' Things Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEECC FFGGCC HHIICCJJAACCI ain't afeard uv snakes or toads or bugs or worms or mice | A |
An' things 'at girls are skeered uv I think are awful nice | A |
I'm pretty brave I guess an' yet I hate to go to bed | B |
For when I'm tucked up warm an' snug an' when my prayers are said | B |
Mother tells me Happy dreams and takes away the light | C |
An' leaves me lyin' all alone an' seein' things at night | C |
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Sometimes they're in the corner sometimes they're by the door | D |
Sometimes they're all a standin' in the middle uv the floor | D |
Sometimes they are a sittin' down sometimes they're walkin' round | E |
So softly an' so creepylike they never make a sound | E |
Sometimes they are as black as ink an' other times they're white | C |
But the color ain't no difference when you see things at night | C |
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Once when I licked a feller 'at had just moved on our street | F |
An' father sent me up to bed without a bite to eat | F |
I woke up in the dark an' saw things standin' in a row | G |
A lookin' at me cross eyed an' p'intin' at me so | G |
Oh my I wuz so skeered that time I never slep' a mite | C |
It's almost alluz when I'm bad I see things at night | C |
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Lucky thing I ain't a girl or I'd be skeered to death | H |
Bein' I'm a boy I duck my head an' hold my breath | H |
An' I am oh so sorry I'm a naughty boy an' then | I |
I promise to be better an' I say my prayers again | I |
Gran'ma tells me that's the only way to make it right | C |
When a feller has been wicked an' sees things at night | C |
An' so when other naughty boys would coax me into sin | J |
I try to skwush the Tempter's voice 'at urges me within | J |
An' when they's pie for supper or cakes 'at 's big an' nice | A |
I want to but I do not pass my plate f'r them things twice | A |
No ruther let Starvation wipe me slowly out o' sight | C |
Than I should keep a livin' on an' seein' things at night | C |
Eugene Field
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