The Lyttel Boy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GFHFIBJB KJLJMBAB NFBFFBAB| Sometime there ben a lyttel boy | A |
| That wolde not renne and play | B |
| And helpless like that little tyke | C |
| Ben allwais in the way | B |
| Goe make you merrie with the rest | D |
| His weary moder cried | E |
| But with a frown he catcht her gown | F |
| And hong untill her side | E |
| - | |
| That boy did love his moder well | G |
| Which spake him faire I ween | F |
| He loved to stand and hold her hand | H |
| And ken her with his een | F |
| His cosset bleated in the croft | I |
| His toys unheeded lay | B |
| He wolde not goe but tarrying soe | J |
| Ben allwais in the way | B |
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| Godde loveth children and doth gird | K |
| His throne with soche as these | J |
| And He doth smile in plaisaunce while | L |
| They cluster at His knees | J |
| And sometime when He looked on earth | M |
| And watched the bairns at play | B |
| He kenned with joy a lyttel boy | A |
| Ben allwais in the way | B |
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| And then a moder felt her heart | N |
| How that it ben to torne | F |
| She kissed eche day till she ben gray | B |
| The shoon he used to worn | F |
| No bairn let hold untill her gown | F |
| Nor played upon the floore | B |
| Godde's was the joy a lyttel boy | A |
| Ben in the way no more | B |
Eugene Field
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