When I Was A Boy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAACCDDB EBEEFFGGB HBHHIIJJB| Up in the attic where I slept | A |
| When I was a boy a little boy | B |
| In through the lattice the moonlight crept | A |
| Bringing a tide of dreams that swept | A |
| Over the low red trundle bed | C |
| Bathing the tangled curly head | C |
| While moonbeams played at hide and seek | D |
| With the dimples on the sun browned cheek | D |
| When I was a boy a little boy | B |
| - | |
| And oh the dreams the dreams I dreamed | E |
| When I was a boy a little boy | B |
| For the grace that through the lattice streamed | E |
| Over my folded eyelids seemed | E |
| To have the gift of prophecy | F |
| And to bring me glimpses of times to be | F |
| When manhood's clarion seemed to call | G |
| Ah that was the sweetest dream of all | G |
| When I was a boy a little boy | B |
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| I'd like to sleep where I used to sleep | H |
| When I was a boy a little boy | B |
| For in at the lattice the moon would peep | H |
| Bringing her tide of dreams to sweep | H |
| The crosses and griefs of the years away | I |
| From the heart that is weary and faint to day | I |
| And those dreams should give me back again | J |
| A peace I have never known since then | J |
| When I was a boy a little boy | B |
Eugene Field
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