A Little Child Shall Lead Them Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED D FGFG CHIH CJKJ LMLB LJNJ KBOB PQRQ STST AUVU| Only a little scrap of blue | A |
| Preserved with loving care | B |
| But earth has not a brilliant hue | A |
| To me more bright and fair | B |
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| Strong drink like a raging demon | C |
| Laid on my heart his hand | D |
| When my darling joined with others | E |
| The Loyal Legion band | D |
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| The Temperance Band | D |
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| But mystic angels called away | F |
| My loved and precious child | G |
| And o'er life's dark and stormy way | F |
| Swept waves of anguish wild | G |
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| This badge of the Loyal Legion | C |
| We placed upon her breast | H |
| As she lay in her little coffin | I |
| Taking her last sweet rest | H |
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| To wear that badge as a token | C |
| She earnestly did crave | J |
| So we laid it on her bosom | K |
| To wear it in the grave | J |
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| Where sorrow would never reach her | L |
| Nor harsh words smite her ear | M |
| Nor her eyes in death dimmed slumber | L |
| Would ever shed a tear | B |
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| What means this badge said her father | L |
| Whom we had tried to save | J |
| Who said when we told her story | N |
| Don't put it in the grave | J |
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| We took the badge from her bosom | K |
| And laid it on a chair | B |
| And men by drink deluded | O |
| Knelt by that badge in prayer | B |
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| And vowed in that hour of sorrow | P |
| From drink they would abstain | Q |
| And this little badge became the wedge | R |
| Which broke their galling chain | Q |
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| And lifted the gloomy shadows | S |
| That overspread my life | T |
| And flooding my home with gladness | S |
| Made me a happy wife | T |
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| And this is why this scrap of blue | A |
| Is precious in my sight | U |
| It changed my sad and gloomy home | V |
| From darkness into light | U |
Frances E. W. Harper
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