Dream-march Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFGF HAHA IJIJ EFFF FFFFEKEK EFLF| 'Wasn't it a funny dream perfectly bewild'rin' | A |
| Last night and night before and night before that | B |
| Seemed like I saw the march o' regiments o' children | A |
| Marching to the robin's fife and cricket's rat ta tat | B |
| Lily banners overhead with the dew upon 'em | C |
| On flashed the little army as with sword and flame | D |
| Like the buzz o' bumble wings with the honey on 'em | C |
| Came an eerie cheery chant chiming as it came | D |
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| Where go the children Travelling Travelling | E |
| Where go the children travelling ahead | F |
| Some go to kindergarten some go to day school | G |
| Some go to night school and some go to bed | F |
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| Smooth roads or rough roads warm or winter weather | H |
| On go the children tow head and brown | A |
| Brave boys and brave girls rank and file together | H |
| Marching out of Morning Land over dale and down | A |
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| Some go a gypsying out in country places | I |
| Out through the orchards with blossoms on the boughs | J |
| Wild sweet and pink and white as their own glad faces | I |
| And some go at evening calling home the cows | J |
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| Where go the children Travelling Travelling | E |
| Where go the children travelling ahead | F |
| Some go to foreign wars and camps by the firelight | F |
| Some go to glory so and some go to bed | F |
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| Some go through grassy lanes leading to the city | F |
| Thinner grow the green trees and thicker grows the dust | F |
| Ever though to little people any path is pretty | F |
| So it leads to newer lands as they know it must | F |
| Some go to singing less some go to list'ning | E |
| Some go to thinking over ever nobler themes | K |
| Some go anhungered but ever bravely whistling | E |
| Turning never home again only in their dreams | K |
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| Where go the children Travelling Travelling | E |
| Where go the children travelling ahead | F |
| Some go to conquer things some go to try them | L |
| Some go to dream them and some go to bed | F |
James Whitcomb Riley
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