To A Little Girl That Has Told A Lie Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEFGG AAHHII JJKKGG LLMMNN FFOOPP| AND has my darling told a lie | A |
| Did she forget that GOD was by | A |
| That GOD who saw the things she did | B |
| From whom no action can be hid | B |
| Did she forget that GOD could see | C |
| And hear wherever she might be | C |
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| He made your eyes and can discern | D |
| Whichever way you think to turn | D |
| He made your ears and he can hear | E |
| When you think nobody is near | F |
| In every place by night or day | G |
| He watches all you do and say | G |
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| Oh how I wish you would but try | A |
| To act as shall not need a lie | A |
| And when you wish a thing to do | H |
| That has been once forbidden you | H |
| Remember that nor ever dare | I |
| To disobey for GOD is there | I |
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| Why should you fear the truth to tell | J |
| Does falsehood ever do so well | J |
| Can you be satisfied to know | K |
| There's something wrong to hide below | K |
| No let your fault be what it may | G |
| To own it is the happy way | G |
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| So long as you your crime conceal | L |
| You cannot light and gladsome feel | L |
| Your little heart will seem oppress'd | M |
| As if a weight were on your breast | M |
| And e'en your mother's eye to meet | N |
| Will tinge your face with shame and heat | N |
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| Yes GOD has made your duty clear | F |
| By every blush by every fear | F |
| And conscience like an angel kind | O |
| Keeps watch to bring it to your mind | O |
| Its friendly warnings ever heed | P |
| And neither tell a lie nor need | P |
Ann Taylor
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