The Story Of Moses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABA CDED FGHG BIJI BKLK MNON FPQP BRJR BSTS FUVU| Tell me a Sunday story | A |
| A dear child said to me | A |
| And I bent down and kissed her | B |
| And placed her on my knee | A |
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| Once long ago in countries | C |
| Far very far away | D |
| Where the cold snow storm never comes | E |
| And all is bright and gay | D |
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| There lived a king so cruel | F |
| He gave this stern command | G |
| That all the little children | H |
| Must die throughout the land | G |
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| But still there was one mother | B |
| Who kept her baby dear | I |
| And quickly hushed its crying | J |
| In silence and in fear | I |
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| But when she could no longer | B |
| Her precious baby hide | K |
| She did not like to throw him | L |
| Upon the rushing tide | K |
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| And so a little basket | M |
| She made of rushes stout | N |
| And plastered it with clay and pitch | O |
| To keep the water out | N |
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| Then in this basket cradle | F |
| She put the little child | P |
| And quietly he floated down | Q |
| Among the rushes wild | P |
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| Just then the king's own daughter | B |
| Came to the water's edge | R |
| And saw the basket floating | J |
| Among the grass and sedge | R |
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| She drew it from the water | B |
| And called the babe her own | S |
| And kept him till to be a man | T |
| That little boy had grown | S |
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| And when you read the Bible | F |
| Which you will learn to do | U |
| You'll see how great and good he was | V |
| And how God loved him too | U |
H. P. Nichols
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