Toyland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDCDC E FGFHIBIB E JKJLMNMNOIOI P QQRRSTSTUVUVIVIV I ENNEWXWXYZYZA2A2 E PVPVYYB2C2B2C2D2D2VE 2E2F2VF2 P G2H2G2H2VVXXI2I2E2J2 E2RK2RXXK2J2J2K2K2 P NNEEXEEXL2EL2K2DK2D

There's a story no one knowsA
But myself about a roseA
And a fairy and a starB
Where the Toyland people areB
Once when I had gone to bedC
Mother said it was a dreamD
From a rose above my headC
Growing by the window beamD
Out there popped a fairy's headC
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And he nodded at me smiledF
Said 'You're fond of stories ehG
Well I know a star each childF
Ought to know It's far awayH
Foryour kind but not for meI
I will take you to that starB
Where you'll hear new stories seeI
Close your eyes It is n't farB
That is 't is n't far for me '-
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And he'd hardly spoken whenJ
From the rose there came a mothK
And before you'd counted tenJ
We were on it and were bothL
Flying to that star that madeM
Silver sparkles in the airN
And though I was not afraidM
I was glad when we were thereN
And the moth was stabled whiteO
In a lily bud and weI
Went to find the fay or spriteO
Who he said would welcome meI
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And we found her 'T was n't longQ
Till we heard a twittering songQ
And a toy bird with white eyesR
Flew before us from the skiesR
Like those in my Noah's ArkS
And we followed it and cameT
To the strangest land our parkS
Is just like it just the sameT
Toy trees squirrels birds and brooksU
And a castle on the hillV
Just like those in story booksU
And upon its windowsillV
Leaned a lovely Princess SheI
Smiled at me and that was allV
As a doll smiles and to meI
She was like a great big dollV
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Then before I knew it IE
Was inside her palace thereN
In the room and everywhereN
Dolls and story books and myE
All the dolls began to singW
Rhymes or read and others toldX
Stories just like everythingW
Better stories than the oldX
Ones my father reads me inY
Mother Goose and books like GrimmZ
That he hates so to beginY
Tales for which I bother himZ
Since he says both tales and rhymesA2
He has read a thousand timesA2
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Blue Beard and the Yellow DwarfP
And the lovely RapunzelV
She whose hair was once a scarfP
For a prince to climb by NellV
Little Nell or else her twinY
Who somehow had happened inY
And the Sleeping Beauty whoB2
Seemed asleep and sat there dumbC2
Hansel and sweet Grethel tooB2
Snow dropp and Hop o' my ThumbC2
Rumpelstiltzkin Riding HoodD2
And the Babes lost in the WoodD2
Met around a little tableV
Where I sat beside a QueenE2
Queen of Hearts and dressed in greenE2
Robin Hood a eating tartsF2
While old sop told a fableV
Sitting by the King of HeartsF2
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And the waiters were Bo PeepG2
Knave of Hearts and Marjory DawH2
Boy Blue slow as if asleepG2
And the Woman who slept on StrawH2
And the little dishes allV
Though they seemed so were not smallV
Painted blue and green and goldX
With the stories I'd heard toldX
Pictures forming of themselvesI2
Of the Elf Queen and the ElvesI2
Never never have I seenE2
Service like it Then the talkJ2
All about the Fairy QueenE2
And the Land of Tarts and PiesR
Where those three fat brothers goK2
Greedygut with tiny eyesR
Like a pig's and SleepyheadX
With his candle going to bedX
And old creepy footed SlowK2
Of these three they made great talkJ2
And that Land where Scarecrows stalkJ2
And the Jack o' Lanterns growK2
Row on glaring goblin rowK2
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Suddenly among them thereN
At my back above my chairN
Cried a Cuckoo Clock and whyE
There I was back home and IE
Was n't nowhere but in bedX
And my mother standing byE
Smiling at me I could cryE
When I think the things they saidX
That I can'tremember nowL2
Though I try and try and tryE
But I knowthis anyhowL2
I was in that star I knowK2
And in Toyland Does n't seemD
Anything but true althoughK2
Mother says it was a dreamD

Madison Julius Cawein



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