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Five Little Toes At Night

Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919

This little toe is tired,
This little toe needs rocking,
This little toe is sleepy you know,
But this little toe keeps talking,
This toe big and tall is the mischief of all,
For he made a great hole in his stocking.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 08, 2023

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Scheme ABCBDB
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 218
Words 44
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
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