The Humming Top Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDEED FGFHEEAIIA JKJKCCBLLB| The top it hummeth a sweet sweet song | A |
| To my dear little boy at play | B |
| Merrily singeth all day long | A |
| As it spinneth and spinneth away | B |
| And my dear little boy | C |
| He laugheth with joy | C |
| When he heareth the monotone | D |
| Of that busy thing | E |
| That loveth to sing | E |
| The song that is all its own | D |
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| Hold fast the string and wind it tight | F |
| That the song be loud and clear | G |
| Now hurl the top with all your might | F |
| Upon the banquette here | H |
| And straight from the string | E |
| The joyous thing | E |
| Boundeth and spinneth along | A |
| And it whirrs and it chirrs | I |
| And it birrs and it purrs | I |
| Ever its pretty song | A |
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| Will ever my dear little boy grow old | J |
| As some have grown before | K |
| Will ever his heart feel faint and cold | J |
| When he heareth the songs of yore | K |
| Will ever this toy | C |
| Of my dear little boy | C |
| When the years have worn away | B |
| Sing sad and low | L |
| Of the long ago | L |
| As it singeth to me to day | B |
Eugene Field
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