My Bed Is A Boat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH| My bed is like a little boat | A |
| Nurse helps me in when I embark | B |
| She girds me in my sailor's coat | A |
| And starts me in the dark | B |
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| At night I go on board and say | C |
| Good night to all my friends on shore | D |
| I shut my eyes and sail away | C |
| And see and hear no more | D |
| - | |
| And sometimes things to bed I take | E |
| As prudent sailors have to do | F |
| Perhaps a slice of wedding cake | E |
| Perhaps a toy or two | F |
| - | |
| All night across the dark we steer | G |
| But when the day returns at last | H |
| Safe in my room beside the pier | G |
| I find my vessel fast | H |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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