The Adopted Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCD EEFFG HHIIJ BBKKG LLMMN EEHHG OOPPQ RRKKG| 'Why wouldst thou leave me oh gentle child | A |
| Thy home on the mountain is bleak and wild | A |
| A straw roof'd cabin with lowly wall | B |
| Mine is a fair and a pillar'd hall | B |
| Where many an image of marble gleams | C |
| And the sunshine of picture for ever streams ' | D |
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| 'Oh green is the turf where my brothers play | E |
| Thro' the long bright hours of the summer day | E |
| They find the red cup moss where they climb | F |
| And they chase the bee o'er the scented thyme | F |
| And the rocks where the heath flower blooms they know | G |
| Lady kind lady oh let me go ' | - |
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| 'Content thee boy in my bower to dwell | H |
| Here are sweet sounds which thou lovest well | H |
| Flutes on the air in the stilly noon | I |
| Harps which the wandering breezes tune | I |
| And the silvery wood note of many a bird | J |
| Whose voice was ne'er in thy mountains heard ' | - |
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| 'Oh my mother sings at the twilight's fall | B |
| A song of the hills far more sweet than all | B |
| She sings it under our own green tree | K |
| To the babe half slumb'ring on her knee | K |
| I dreamt last night of that music low | G |
| Lady kind lady oh let me go ' | - |
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| 'Thy mother is gone from her cares to rest | L |
| She hath taken the babe on her quiet breast | L |
| Thou would'st meet her footstep my boy no more | M |
| Nor hear her song at the cabin door | M |
| Come thou with me to the vineyards nigh | N |
| And we'll pluck the grapes of the richest dye ' | - |
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| 'Is my mother gone from her home away | E |
| But I know that my brothers are there at play | E |
| I know they are gathering the foxglove's bell | H |
| Or the long fern leaves by the sparkling well | H |
| Or they launch their boats where the bright streams flow | G |
| Lady kind lady oh let me go ' | - |
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| 'Fair child thy brothers are wanderers now | O |
| They sport no more on the mountain's brow | O |
| They have left the fern by the spring's green side | P |
| And the streams where the fairy barks were tried | P |
| Be thou at peace in thy brighter lot | Q |
| For thy cabin home is a lonely spot ' | - |
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| 'Are they gone all gone from the sunny hill | R |
| But the bird and the blue fly rove o'er it still | R |
| And the red deer bound in their gladness free | K |
| And the heath is bent by the singing bee | K |
| And the waters leap and the fresh winds blow | G |
| Lady kind lady oh let me go ' | - |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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