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 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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