The Blind Slave Boy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDD EEFFGGHH IJKLLMM BBNOPPQQ| Come back to me mother why linger away | A |
| From thy poor little blind boy the long weary day | A |
| I mark every footstep I list to each tone | B |
| And wonder my mother should leave me alone | B |
| But there s no one to joy or to sorrow with me | C |
| For each hath of pleasure and trouble his share | D |
| And none for the poor little blind boy will care | D |
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| My mother come back to me close to thy breast | E |
| Once more let thy poor little blind one be pressed | E |
| Once more let me feel they warm breath on my cheek | F |
| And hear thee in accents of tenderness speak | F |
| O mother I ve no one to love me no heart | G |
| Can bear like thine own in my sorrows a part | G |
| No hand is so gentle no voice is so kind | H |
| O none like a mother can cherish the blind | H |
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| Poor blind one No mother thy wailing can hear | I |
| No mother can hasten to banish thy fear | J |
| And for one paltry dollar hath sold thee poor child | K |
| Ah who can in language of mortals reveal | L |
| The anguish that none but a mother can feel | L |
| When man is his vile lust of mammon hath trod | M |
| On her child who is stricken and smitten of God | M |
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| Blind helpless forsaken with strangers alone | B |
| She hears in her anguish his piteous moan | B |
| As he eagerly listens but listens in vain | N |
| To catch the loved tones of his mother again | O |
| The curse of the broken in spirit shall fall | P |
| On the wretch who hath mingled this wormwood and gall | P |
| And his gain like a mildew shall blight and destroy | Q |
| Who hath torn from his mother the little blind boy | Q |
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