The Blind Archer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEEE FGFHCCI I JKJKCCL L MNMNMMO O MBM MMPP| Little boy Love drew his bow at a chance | A |
| Shooting down at the ballroom floor | B |
| He hit an old chaperone watching the dance | A |
| And oh but he wounded her sore | B |
| 'Hey Love you couldn't mean that | C |
| Hi Love what would you be at ' | D |
| No word would he say | E |
| But he flew on his way | E |
| For the little boy's busy and how could he stay | E |
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| Little boy Love drew a shaft just for sport | F |
| At the soberest club in Pall Mall | G |
| He winged an old veteran drinking his port | F |
| And down that old veteran fell | H |
| 'Hey Love you mustn't do that | C |
| Hi Love what would you be at | C |
| This cannot be right | I |
| It's ludicrous quite ' | - |
| But it's no use to argue for Love's out of sight | I |
| - | |
| A sad faced young clerk in a cell all apart | J |
| Was planning a celibate vow | K |
| But the boy's random arrow has sunk in his heart | J |
| And the cell is an empty one now | K |
| 'Hey Love you mustn't do that | C |
| Hi Love what would you be at | C |
| He is not for you | L |
| He has duties to do ' | - |
| 'But I AM his duty ' quoth Love as he flew | L |
| - | |
| The king sought a bride and the nation had hoped | M |
| For a queen without rival or peer | N |
| But the little boy shot and the king has eloped | M |
| With Miss No one on Nothing a year | N |
| 'Hey Love you couldn't mean that | M |
| Hi Love what would you be at | M |
| What an impudent thing | O |
| To make game of a king ' | - |
| 'But I'M a king also ' cried Love on the wing | O |
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| Little boy Love grew pettish one day | M |
| 'If you keep on complaining ' he swore | B |
| 'I'll pack both my bow and my quiver away | M |
| And so I shall plague you no more ' | - |
| 'Hey Love you mustn't do that | M |
| Hi Love what would you be at | M |
| You may ruin our ease | P |
| You may do what you please | P |
| But we can't do without you you dear little tease ' | - |
Arthur Conan Doyle
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