Boston Lullaby Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC ADAD EFGF HGHG IGIG| Baby's brain is tired of thinking | A |
| On the Wherefore and the Whence | B |
| Baby's precious eyes are blinking | A |
| With incipient somnolence | C |
| - | |
| Little hands are weary turning | A |
| Heavy leaves of lexicon | D |
| Little nose is fretted learning | A |
| How to keep its glasses on | D |
| - | |
| Baby knows the laws of nature | E |
| Are beneficent and wise | F |
| His medulla oblongata | G |
| Bids my darling close his eyes | F |
| - | |
| And his pneumogastrics tell him | H |
| Quietude is always best | G |
| When his little cerebellum | H |
| Needs recuperative rest | G |
| - | |
| Baby must have relaxation | I |
| Let the world go wrong or right | G |
| Sleep my darling leave Creation | I |
| To its chances for the night | G |
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