James Whitcomb Riley

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No Boy Knows Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFGHHDD IIJJKKDD LMGGNNDD

There are many things that boys may knowA
Why this and that are thus and soA
Who made the world in the dark and litB
The great sun up to lighten itB
Boys know new things every dayC
When they study or when they playC
When they idle or sow and reapD
But no boy knows when he goes to sleepD
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Boys who listen or should at leastE
May know that the round old earth rolls EastE
And know that the ice and the snow and the rainF
Ever repeating their parts againG
Are all just water the sunbeams firstH
Sip from the earth in their endless thirstH
And pour again till the low streams leapD
But no boy knows when he goes to sleepD
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A boy may know what a long glad whileI
It has been to him since the dawn's first smileI
When forth he fared in the realm divineJ
Of brook laced woodland and spun sunshineJ
He may know each call of his truant matesK
And the paths they went and the pasture gatesK
Of the 'cross lots home through the dusk so deepD
But no boy knows when he goes to sleepD
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O I have followed me o'er and o'erL
From the flagrant drowse on the parlor floorM
To the pleading voice of the mother whenG
I even doubted I heard it thenG
To the sense of a kiss and a moonlit roomN
And dewy odors of locust bloomN
A sweet white cot and a cricket's cheepD
But no boy knows when he goes to sleepD

James Whitcomb Riley



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