A Little Child Shall Lead Them Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG CHIH CJKJ LMLB LJNJ KBOB PQRQ STST AUVUOnly 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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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 Ellen Watkins Harper
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