Bedtime Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGGHIJKILMNNOP| Usually I stay up late my time | A |
| alone Tonight at o I can tell | B |
| I'm only awake long enough | C |
| to put my sons to bed | D |
| When I start to turn off lights | E |
| the boys are puzzled They're used | F |
| to entering sleep by ceding to me | G |
| their hum and fizz the way they give me | G |
| to hold so they can play | H |
| without money I'm their night light | I |
| I'm the bread baked while they sleep | J |
| And I can scarcely stand up dry | K |
| in the mouth and dizzied | I |
| by fatigue From our rooms | L |
| we call back and forth the worn | M |
| magic of our passwords and let one | N |
| another go In the morning Sebastian | N |
| asks who was the last to fall | O |
| asleep and none of us cares or knows | P |
William Matthews
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