Hagar And Ishmael Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIK DCDC| 'Twas morning and the pleasant light | A |
| Shone on the hills the trees the flowers | B |
| And made a far off country bright | A |
| A lovely land but not like ours | B |
| - | |
| A mother led her little child | C |
| Forth from his father's door away | D |
| And with the flowers he played and smiled | C |
| As beautiful and bright as they | D |
| - | |
| But when at noon the warm sun beat | E |
| Upon the sweet boy's forehead fair | F |
| Tired and thirsty from the heat | E |
| He asked in vain for water there | F |
| - | |
| The bottle filled with water clear | G |
| At early day was empty now | H |
| The mother laid her child so dear | G |
| Beneath an old tree's spreading bough | H |
| - | |
| She turned away and heard the sound | I |
| Of water gushing like the rain | J |
| She raised her boy from off the ground | I |
| He drank and played and smiled again | K |
| - | |
| They travelled on for many a day | D |
| The mother and her little child | C |
| And found a home far far away | D |
| At last among the deserts wild | C |
H. P. Nichols
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