Bedtime Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHCC| Come children put away your toys | A |
| Roll up that kite's long line | B |
| The day is done for girls and boys | A |
| Look it is almost nine | B |
| Come weary foot and sleepy head | C |
| Get up and come along to bed | C |
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| The children loath must yet obey | D |
| Up the long stair they creep | E |
| Lie down and something sing or say | D |
| Until they fall asleep | E |
| To steal through caverns of the night | F |
| Into the morning's golden light | F |
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| We elder ones sit up more late | G |
| And tasks unfinished ply | H |
| But gently busy watch and wait | G |
| Dear sister you and I | H |
| To hear the Father with soft tread | C |
| Coming to carry us to bed | C |
George Macdonald
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