The Reaper's Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGCH EIEI

If you go to the field where the reapers now bindA
The sheaves of ripe corn there a fine little lassB
Only three months of age by the hedge row you'll findA
Left alone by its mother upon the low grassB
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While the mother is reaping the infant is sleepingC
Not the basket that holds the provision is lessD
By the hard working reaper than this little sleeperE
Regarded till hunger does on the babe pressD
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Then it opens its eyes and it utters loud criesF
Which its hard working mother afar off will hearG
She comes at its calling she quiets its squallingC
And feeds it and leaves it again without fearH
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When you were as young as this field nurs d daughterE
You were fed in the house and brought up on the kneeI
So tenderly watched thy fond mother thought herE
Whole time well bestowed in nursing of theeI

Charles Lamb



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