The Old Trundle-bed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EFGGHHDD DDIIJJDD| O the old trundle bed where I slept when a boy | A |
| What canopied king might not covet the joy | A |
| The glory and peace of that slumber of mine | B |
| Like a long gracious rest in the bosom divine | B |
| The quaint homely couch hidden close from the light | C |
| But daintily drawn from its hiding at night | C |
| O a nest of delight from the foot to the head | D |
| Was the queer little clear little old trundle bed | D |
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| O the old trundle bed where I wondering saw | E |
| The stars through the window and listened with awe | F |
| To the sigh of the winds as they tremblingly crept | G |
| Through the trees where the robin so restlessly slept | G |
| Where I heard the low murmurous chirp of the wren | H |
| And the katydid listlessly chirrup again | H |
| Till my fancies grew faint and were drowsily led | D |
| Through the maze of the dreams of the old trundle bed | D |
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| O the old trundle bed O the old trundle bed | D |
| With its plump little pillow and old fashioned spread | D |
| Its snowy white sheets and the blankets above | I |
| Smoothed down and tucked round with the touches of love | I |
| The voice of my mother to lull me to sleep | J |
| With the old fairy stories my memories keep | J |
| Still fresh as the lilies that bloom o'er the head | D |
| Once bowed o'er my own in the old trundle bed | D |
James Whitcomb Riley
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