No Boy Knows Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFGHHDD IIJJKKDD LMGGNNDD| There are many things that boys may know | A |
| Why this and that are thus and so | A |
| Who made the world in the dark and lit | B |
| The great sun up to lighten it | B |
| Boys know new things every day | C |
| When they study or when they play | C |
| When they idle or sow and reap | D |
| But no boy knows when he goes to sleep | D |
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| Boys who listen or should at least | E |
| May know that the round old earth rolls East | E |
| And know that the ice and the snow and the rain | F |
| Ever repeating their parts again | G |
| Are all just water the sunbeams first | H |
| Sip from the earth in their endless thirst | H |
| And pour again till the low streams leap | D |
| But no boy knows when he goes to sleep | D |
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| A boy may know what a long glad while | I |
| It has been to him since the dawn's first smile | I |
| When forth he fared in the realm divine | J |
| Of brook laced woodland and spun sunshine | J |
| He may know each call of his truant mates | K |
| And the paths they went and the pasture gates | K |
| Of the 'cross lots home through the dusk so deep | D |
| But no boy knows when he goes to sleep | D |
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| O I have followed me o'er and o'er | L |
| From the flagrant drowse on the parlor floor | M |
| To the pleading voice of the mother when | G |
| I even doubted I heard it then | G |
| To the sense of a kiss and a moonlit room | N |
| And dewy odors of locust bloom | N |
| A sweet white cot and a cricket's cheep | D |
| But no boy knows when he goes to sleep | D |
James Whitcomb Riley
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