Toyland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDCDC E FGFHIBIB E JKJLMNMNOIOI P QQRRSTSTUVUVIVIV I ENNEWXWXYZYZA2A2 E PVPVYYB2C2B2C2D2D2VE 2E2F2VF2 P G2H2G2H2VVXXI2I2E2J2 E2RK2RXXK2J2J2K2K2 P NNEEXEEXL2EL2K2DK2DThere's a story no one knows | A |
But myself about a rose | A |
And a fairy and a star | B |
Where the Toyland people are | B |
Once when I had gone to bed | C |
Mother said it was a dream | D |
From a rose above my head | C |
Growing by the window beam | D |
Out there popped a fairy's head | C |
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II | E |
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And he nodded at me smiled | F |
Said 'You're fond of stories eh | G |
Well I know a star each child | F |
Ought to know It's far away | H |
Foryour kind but not for me | I |
I will take you to that star | B |
Where you'll hear new stories see | I |
Close your eyes It is n't far | B |
That is 't is n't far for me ' | - |
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III | E |
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And he'd hardly spoken when | J |
From the rose there came a moth | K |
And before you'd counted ten | J |
We were on it and were both | L |
Flying to that star that made | M |
Silver sparkles in the air | N |
And though I was not afraid | M |
I was glad when we were there | N |
And the moth was stabled white | O |
In a lily bud and we | I |
Went to find the fay or sprite | O |
Who he said would welcome me | I |
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IV | P |
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And we found her 'T was n't long | Q |
Till we heard a twittering song | Q |
And a toy bird with white eyes | R |
Flew before us from the skies | R |
Like those in my Noah's Ark | S |
And we followed it and came | T |
To the strangest land our park | S |
Is just like it just the same | T |
Toy trees squirrels birds and brooks | U |
And a castle on the hill | V |
Just like those in story books | U |
And upon its windowsill | V |
Leaned a lovely Princess She | I |
Smiled at me and that was all | V |
As a doll smiles and to me | I |
She was like a great big doll | V |
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V | I |
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Then before I knew it I | E |
Was inside her palace there | N |
In the room and everywhere | N |
Dolls and story books and my | E |
All the dolls began to sing | W |
Rhymes or read and others told | X |
Stories just like everything | W |
Better stories than the old | X |
Ones my father reads me in | Y |
Mother Goose and books like Grimm | Z |
That he hates so to begin | Y |
Tales for which I bother him | Z |
Since he says both tales and rhymes | A2 |
He has read a thousand times | A2 |
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VI | E |
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Blue Beard and the Yellow Dwarf | P |
And the lovely Rapunzel | V |
She whose hair was once a scarf | P |
For a prince to climb by Nell | V |
Little Nell or else her twin | Y |
Who somehow had happened in | Y |
And the Sleeping Beauty who | B2 |
Seemed asleep and sat there dumb | C2 |
Hansel and sweet Grethel too | B2 |
Snow dropp and Hop o' my Thumb | C2 |
Rumpelstiltzkin Riding Hood | D2 |
And the Babes lost in the Wood | D2 |
Met around a little table | V |
Where I sat beside a Queen | E2 |
Queen of Hearts and dressed in green | E2 |
Robin Hood a eating tarts | F2 |
While old sop told a fable | V |
Sitting by the King of Hearts | F2 |
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VII | P |
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And the waiters were Bo Peep | G2 |
Knave of Hearts and Marjory Daw | H2 |
Boy Blue slow as if asleep | G2 |
And the Woman who slept on Straw | H2 |
And the little dishes all | V |
Though they seemed so were not small | V |
Painted blue and green and gold | X |
With the stories I'd heard told | X |
Pictures forming of themselves | I2 |
Of the Elf Queen and the Elves | I2 |
Never never have I seen | E2 |
Service like it Then the talk | J2 |
All about the Fairy Queen | E2 |
And the Land of Tarts and Pies | R |
Where those three fat brothers go | K2 |
Greedygut with tiny eyes | R |
Like a pig's and Sleepyhead | X |
With his candle going to bed | X |
And old creepy footed Slow | K2 |
Of these three they made great talk | J2 |
And that Land where Scarecrows stalk | J2 |
And the Jack o' Lanterns grow | K2 |
Row on glaring goblin row | K2 |
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VIII | P |
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Suddenly among them there | N |
At my back above my chair | N |
Cried a Cuckoo Clock and why | E |
There I was back home and I | E |
Was n't nowhere but in bed | X |
And my mother standing by | E |
Smiling at me I could cry | E |
When I think the things they said | X |
That I can'tremember now | L2 |
Though I try and try and try | E |
But I knowthis anyhow | L2 |
I was in that star I know | K2 |
And in Toyland Does n't seem | D |
Anything but true although | K2 |
Mother says it was a dream | D |
Madison Julius Cawein
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