Choosing A Profession Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEAAFFGGHHIIDE JJKK| A Creole boy from the West Indies brought | A |
| To be in European learning taught | A |
| Some years before to Westminster he went | B |
| To a preparatory school was sent | B |
| When from his artless tale the mistress found | C |
| The child had not one friend on English ground | C |
| She even as if she his own mother were | D |
| Made the dark Indian her peculiar care | E |
| Oft on her favourite's future lot she thought | A |
| To know the bent of his young mind she sought | A |
| For much the kind preceptress wished to find | F |
| To what profession he was most inclined | F |
| That where his genius led they might him train | G |
| For nature's kindly bent she held not vain | G |
| But vain her efforts to explore his will | H |
| The frequent question he evaded still | H |
| Till on a day at length he to her came | I |
| Joy sparkling in his eyes and said the same | I |
| Trade he would be those boys of colour were | D |
| Who danced so happy in the open air | E |
| It was a troop of chimney sweeping boys | J |
| With wooden music and obstreperous noise | J |
| In tarnished finery and grotesque array | K |
| Were dancing in the street the first of May | K |
Charles Lamb
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