To A River In Which A Child Was Drowned Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE CGFH IJDJ| Smiling river smiling river | A |
| On thy bosom sun beams play | B |
| Though they're fleeting and retreating | C |
| Thou hast more deceit than they | B |
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| In thy channel in thy channel | D |
| Choak'd with ooze and grav'lly stones | E |
| Deep immersed and unhearsed | F |
| Lies young Edward's corse his bones | E |
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| Ever whitening ever whitening | C |
| As thy waves against them dash | G |
| What thy torrent in the current | F |
| Swallow'd now it helps to wash | H |
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| As if senseless as if senseless | I |
| Things had feeling in this case | J |
| What so blindly and unkindly | D |
| It destroy'd it now does grace | J |
Charles Lamb
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