songs of innocence and of experience: nurses song

overall meaning: the nurse is trying to get the children to come inside as it is nearly night time but the children refuse so the nurse conceeds and lets them stay outside.

key features of the poem:

• the first line of the peom references 'the green' which uses pastoral imagery.
• 'dews of the night' and 'till the morning appears' use the them of night and day to show that this may be the last time that the children will be able to play outside because night is asscociated with the end of something therefore the nurse wants them to enjoy it because she knows that it will be the end of their innocence.
• 'no,no' shows that the children are mimicking the nurse as…