Going To Sleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABC DEFEC GHGIC JKLKC| Little one you must not fret | A |
| That I take your clothes away | B |
| Better sleep you so will get | A |
| And at morning wake more gay | B |
| Saith the children's mother | C |
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| You I must unclothe again | D |
| For you need a better dress | E |
| Too much worn are body and brain | F |
| You need everlastingness | E |
| Saith the heavenly father | C |
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| I went down death's lonely stair | G |
| Laid my garments in the tomb | H |
| Dressed again one morning fair | G |
| Hastened up and hied me home | I |
| Saith the elder brother | C |
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| Then I will not be afraid | J |
| Any ill can come to me | K |
| When 'tis time to go to bed | L |
| I will rise and go with thee | K |
| Saith the little brother | C |
George Macdonald
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