The Gnomies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEEF CCGGHCCHCCCHH CIGIJI| As I lay awake in the white moonlight | A |
| I heard a sweet singing in the wood | B |
| 'Out of bed | C |
| Sleepyhead | C |
| Put your white foot now | D |
| Here are we | E |
| 'Neath the tree | E |
| Singing round the root now ' | F |
| - | |
| I looked out of window in the white moonlight | C |
| The trees were like snow in the wood | C |
| 'Come away | G |
| Child and play | G |
| Light wi' the gnomies | H |
| In a mound | C |
| Green and round | C |
| That's where their home is | H |
| 'Honey sweet | C |
| Curds to eat | C |
| Cream and frum nty | C |
| Shells and beads | H |
| Poppy seeds | H |
| You shall have plenty ' | - |
| - | |
| But soon as I stooped in the dim moonlight | C |
| To put on my stocking and my shoe | I |
| The sweet sweet singing died sadly away | G |
| And the light of the morning peep'd through | I |
| Then instead of the gnomies there came a red robin | J |
| To sing of the buttercups and dew | I |
Walter De La Mare
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