Blindness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFAG HIH CJKJ L MN| In a stage coach where late I chanced to be | A |
| A little quiet girl my notice caught | B |
| I saw she looked at nothing by the way | C |
| Her mind seemed busy on some childish thought | D |
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| I with an old man's courtesy addressed | E |
| The child and called her pretty dark eyed maid | F |
| And bid her turn those pretty eyes and see | A |
| The wide extended prospect 'Sir ' she said | G |
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| 'I cannot see the prospect I am blind ' | - |
| Never did tongue of child utter a sound | H |
| So mournful as her words fell on my ear | I |
| Her mother then related how she found | H |
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| Her child was sightless On a fine bright day | C |
| She saw her lay her needlework aside | J |
| And as on such occasions mothers will | K |
| For leaving off her work began to chide | J |
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| 'I'll do it when 'tis daylight if you please | L |
| I cannot work mamma now it is night ' | - |
| The sun shone bright upon her when she spoke | M |
| And yet her eyes received no ray of light | N |
Charles Lamb
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