The Reaper's Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGCH EIEIIf you go to the field where the reapers now bind | A |
The sheaves of ripe corn there a fine little lass | B |
Only three months of age by the hedge row you'll find | A |
Left alone by its mother upon the low grass | B |
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While the mother is reaping the infant is sleeping | C |
Not the basket that holds the provision is less | D |
By the hard working reaper than this little sleeper | E |
Regarded till hunger does on the babe press | D |
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Then it opens its eyes and it utters loud cries | F |
Which its hard working mother afar off will hear | G |
She comes at its calling she quiets its squalling | C |
And feeds it and leaves it again without fear | H |
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When you were as young as this field nurs d daughter | E |
You were fed in the house and brought up on the knee | I |
So tenderly watched thy fond mother thought her | E |
Whole time well bestowed in nursing of thee | I |
Charles Lamb
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