In The Nursery Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDA E F G GH IIJJKKL MMNNOOP P QQ R G I M| Where do you go Bob when you 're fast asleep ' | A |
| 'Where O well once I went into a deep | B |
| Mine father told of and a cross man said | C |
| He'd make me help to dig and eat black bread | C |
| I saw the Queen once in her room quite near | D |
| She said You rude boy Bob how came you here ' | A |
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| 'Was it like mother's boudoir ' | - |
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| 'Grander far | E |
| Gold chairs and things all over diamonds Ah ' | - |
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| 'You're sure it was the Queen ' | - |
| 'Of course a crown | F |
| Was on her and a spangly purple gown ' | - |
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| 'I went to heaven last night ' | - |
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| 'O Lily no | G |
| How could you ' | - |
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| 'Yes I did they told me so | G |
| And my best doll my favourite with the blue | H |
| Frock Jasmine I took her to heaven too ' | - |
| 'What was it like ' | - |
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| 'A kind of I can't tell | I |
| A sort of orchard place in a long dell | I |
| With trees all over flowers And there were birds | J |
| Who could do talking say soft pretty words | J |
| They let me stroke them and I showed it all | K |
| To Jasmine And I heard a blue dove call | K |
| Child this is heaven I was not frightened when | L |
| It spoke I said Where are the angels then ' | - |
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| 'Well ' | - |
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| 'So it said Look up and you shall see | M |
| There were two angels sitting in the tree | M |
| As tall as mother they had long gold hair | N |
| They let drop down the fruit they gather'd there | N |
| And little angels came for it so sweet | O |
| Here they were beggar children in the street | O |
| And the dove said they had the prettiest things | P |
| And wore their best frocks every day ' | - |
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| 'And wings | P |
| Had they no wings ' | - |
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| 'O yes and lined with white | Q |
| Like swallow wings so soft so very light | Q |
| Fluttering about ' | - |
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| 'Well ' | - |
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| 'Well I did not stay | R |
| So that was all ' | - |
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| 'They made you go away ' | - |
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| 'I did not go but I was gone ' | - |
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| 'I know ' | - |
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| 'But it's a pity Bob we never go | G |
| Together ' | - |
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| 'Yes and have no dreams to tell | I |
| But the next day both know it all quite well ' | - |
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| 'And Bob if I could dream you came with me | M |
| You would be there perhaps ' | - |
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| 'Perhaps we'll see ' | - |
Jean Ingelow
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