Through Sleepy-land Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAABB CBCCBB DBDDBB EFGGHBB| Where do you go when you go to sleep | A |
| Little Boy Little Boy where | B |
| 'Way 'way in where's Little Bo Peep | A |
| And Little Boy Blue and the Cows and Sheep | A |
| A wandering 'way in there in there | B |
| A wandering 'way in there | B |
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| And what do you see when lost in dreams | C |
| Little Boy 'way in there | B |
| Firefly glimmers and glowworm gleams | C |
| And silvery low slow sliding streams | C |
| And mermaids smiling out 'way in where | B |
| They're a hiding 'way in there | B |
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| Where do you go when the Fairies call | D |
| Little Boy Little Boy where | B |
| Wade through the clews of the grasses tall | D |
| Hearing the weir and the waterfall | D |
| And the Wee Folk 'way in there in there | B |
| And the Kelpies 'way in there | B |
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| And what do you do when you wake at dawn | E |
| Little Boy Little Boy what | F |
| Hug my Mommy and kiss her on | G |
| Her smiling eyelids sweet and wan | G |
| And tell her everything I've forgot | H |
| About a wandering 'way in there | B |
| Through the blind world 'way in there | B |
James Whitcomb Riley
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