My Shadow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC DDEE FFBB GGCC| From Child's Garden of Verses | A |
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| I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me | B |
| And what can be the use of him is more than I can see | B |
| He is very very like me from the heels up to the head | C |
| And I see him jump before me when I jump into my bed | C |
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| The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow | D |
| Not at all like proper children which is always very slow | D |
| For he sometimes shoots up taller like an india rubber ball | E |
| And he sometimes goes so little that there's none of him at all | E |
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| He hasn't got a notion of how children ought to play | F |
| And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way | F |
| He stays so close behind me he's a coward you can see | B |
| I'd think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me | B |
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| One morning very early before the sun was up | G |
| I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup | G |
| But my lazy little shadow like an arrant sleepy head | C |
| Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed | C |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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