The Piper Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FG HIFJ KIL MN OC PQKRSSJ| No he never led them far away | A |
| willing as they were to follow | B |
| and not to go back | C |
| The mountain never opened | D |
| to take them in | E |
| - | |
| Just over the mountain | F |
| he left them | G |
| - | |
| Having heard such music | H |
| they believed | I |
| they could never again be the children | F |
| of that sad town | J |
| - | |
| Somewhere ahead must lie | K |
| they believed | I |
| the joyous land from which he came | L |
| - | |
| But they did not believe | M |
| that they might find it without him | N |
| - | |
| Some in the end went forward | O |
| and some went back | C |
| - | |
| You may know them and their kind | P |
| by a small empty place | Q |
| in the corner of the eye | K |
| in every town where the young | R |
| pine for a distant land | S |
| in every land | S |
| where they mourn the remembered town | J |
Eric Torgersen
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