The Sheep And The Goat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDCCD EFEEF FGFFG AHAAH FIFFI JKJJK LHLLH MFMMF NONNO| The thousand streets of London gray | A |
| Repel all country sights | B |
| But bar not winds upon their way | A |
| Nor quench the scent of new mown hay | A |
| In depth of summer nights | B |
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| And here and there an open spot | C |
| Still bare to light and dark | D |
| With grass receives the wanderer hot | C |
| There trees are growing houses not | C |
| They call the place a park | D |
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| Soft creatures with ungentle guides | E |
| God's sheep from hill and plain | F |
| Flow thitherward in fitful tides | E |
| There weary lie on woolly sides | E |
| Or crop the grass amain | F |
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| And from dark alley yard and den | F |
| In ragged skirts and coats | G |
| Come thither children of poor men | F |
| Wild things untaught of word or pen | F |
| The little human goats | G |
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| In Regent's Park one cloudless day | A |
| An overdriven sheep | H |
| Come a hard long and dusty way | A |
| Throbbing with thirst and hotness lay | A |
| A panting woollen heap | H |
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| But help is nearer than we know | F |
| For ills of every name | I |
| Ragged enough to scare the crow | F |
| But with a heart to pity woe | F |
| A quick eyed urchin came | I |
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| Little he knew of field or fold | J |
| Yet knew what ailed his cap | K |
| Was ready cup for water cold | J |
| Though creased and stained and very old | J |
| 'Twas not much torn good hap | K |
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| Shaping the rim and crown he went | L |
| Till crown from rim was deep | H |
| The water gushed from pore and rent | L |
| Before he came one half was spent | L |
| The other saved the sheep | H |
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| O little goat born bred in ill | M |
| Unwashed half fed unshorn | F |
| Thou to the sheep from breezy hill | M |
| Wast bishop pastor what you will | M |
| In London dry and lorn | F |
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| And let priests say the thing they please | N |
| My faith though poor and dim | O |
| Thinks he will say who always sees | N |
| In doing it to one of these | N |
| Thou didst it unto him | O |
George Macdonald
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