The Sugar-plum Tree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGHGHIJKJ LGLGMNMNABAB| Have you ever heard of the Sugar Plum Tree | A |
| 'T is a marvel of great renown | B |
| It blooms on the shore of the Lollipop sea | A |
| In the garden of Shut Eye Town | B |
| The fruit that it bears is so wondrously sweet | C |
| As those who have tasted it say | D |
| That good little children have only to eat | C |
| Of that fruit to be happy next day | D |
| When you 've got to the tree you would have a hard time | E |
| To capture the fruit which I sing | F |
| The tree is so tall that no person could climb | E |
| To the boughs where the sugar plums swing | F |
| But up in that tree sits a chocolate cat | G |
| And a gingerbread dog prowls below | H |
| And this is the way you contrive to get at | G |
| Those sugar plums tempting you so | H |
| You say but the word to that gingerbread dog | I |
| And he barks with such terrible zest | J |
| That the chocolate cat is at once all agog | K |
| As her swelling proportions attest | J |
| And the chocolate cat goes cavorting around | L |
| From this leafy limb unto that | G |
| And the sugar plums tumble of course to the ground | L |
| Hurrah for that chocolate cat | G |
| There are marshmallows gumdrops and peppermint canes | M |
| With stripings of scarlet or gold | N |
| And you carry away of the treasure that rains | M |
| As much as your apron can hold | N |
| So come little child cuddle closer to me | A |
| In your dainty white nightcap and gown | B |
| And I 'll rock you away to that Sugar Plum Tree | A |
| In the garden of Shut Eye Town | B |
Eugene Field
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