Babyhood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GAG HIHI ABAB| Heigh ho Babyhood Tell me where you linger | A |
| Let's toddle home again for we have gone astray | B |
| Take this eager hand of mine and lead me by the finger | A |
| Back to the Lotus lands of the far away | B |
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| Turn back the leaves of life don't read the story | C |
| Let's find the pictures and fancy all the rest | D |
| We can fill the written pages with a brighter glory | C |
| Than Old Time the story teller at his very best | D |
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| Turn to the brook where the honeysuckle tipping | E |
| O'er its vase of perfume spills it on the breeze | F |
| And the bee and humming bird in ecstacy are sipping | E |
| From the fairy flagons of the blooming locust trees | F |
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| Turn to the lane where we used to 'teeter totter ' | - |
| Printing little foot palms in the mellow mold | G |
| Laughing at the lazy cattle wading in the water | A |
| Where the ripples dimple round the buttercups of gold | G |
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| Where the dusky turtle lies basking on the gravel | H |
| Of the sunny sandbar in the middle tide | I |
| And the ghostly dragonfly pauses in his travel | H |
| To rest like a blossom where the water lily died | I |
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| Heigh ho Babyhood Tell me where you linger | A |
| Let's toddle home again for we have gone astray | B |
| Take this eager hand of mine and lead me by the finger | A |
| Back to the Lotus lands of the far away | B |
James Whitcomb Riley
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