Santa Claus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDEF GHGHIIEE JKJKLLME NONOPPME QRQRSSEE PTUTGGV| When my mother is n't here | A |
| And I just won't go to bed | B |
| And it's cold outside and near | C |
| Christmas and the kitchen shed | B |
| 'S covered thick with frost and snow | D |
| Then my nurse she says 'Oh oh | D |
| Better get to bed My Laws | E |
| Think I hear Old Santa Claus ' | F |
| - | |
| Then I hurry never kick | G |
| Squirm or cry or anything | H |
| But jump into bed right quick | G |
| 'Fraid to look around and cling | H |
| Fast to nurse and close my eyes | I |
| Tight she looking just as wise | I |
| Scared too don't you know because | E |
| She fast heard Old Santa Claus | E |
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| Why in goodness I'm afraid | J |
| I don't know For Santa's good | K |
| So they say and brings much aid | J |
| To all folks It's understood | K |
| Specially to girls and boys | L |
| Christmas trees and cakes and toys | L |
| But there must be some good cause | M |
| Makes one 'fraid of Santa Claus | E |
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| It's his whiskers I suppose | N |
| Gray and big about his chin | O |
| Where you just can see his nose | N |
| And his eyes each like a pin | O |
| And his clothes all made of hair | P |
| Twinkling thick with frost Declare | P |
| If I saw him I'd have cause | M |
| To be scared of Santa Claus | E |
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| One night week from Christmas I | Q |
| Looked out through the window pane | R |
| And right in our back yard why | Q |
| Some one walked in wind and rain | R |
| Swishing splashing with a whip | S |
| Did n't I just hop and skip | S |
| Into bed because because | E |
| Guess it was Old Santa Claus | E |
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| And I am all shivery | P |
| When I wake up winter nights | T |
| And it's dark and I can't see | U |
| And the black wind fights and fights | T |
| Round the chimney then right quick | G |
| Under cover my head I stick | G |
| Crying 'Mother wake up 'cause | V |
| Think I hear Old Santa Claus ' | - |
Madison Julius Cawein
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