One Of The Least Of These Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCCD EFFGHHHG EEEIJKKI LLMNOOON PPPQRRRQ SSSTDDDT| 'Twas on a day of cold and sleet | A |
| A little nomad of the street | A |
| With tattered garments shoeless feet | A |
| And face with hunger wan | B |
| Great wonder eyes though beautiful | C |
| Hedged in by features pinched and dull | C |
| Betraying lines so pitiful | C |
| By sorrow sharply drawn | D |
| - | |
| Ere yet the service half was o'er | E |
| Approached the great cathedral door | F |
| As choir and organ joined to pour | F |
| Their sweetness on the air | G |
| Then sudden bold impelled to glide | H |
| With fleetness to the altar's side | H |
| Her trembling form she sought to hide | H |
| Amid the shadows there | G |
| - | |
| Half fearful lest some worshiper | E |
| Enveloped close in robes of fur | E |
| Had cast a scornful glance at her | E |
| As she had stolen by | I |
| But soon the swelling anthem fraught | J |
| With reverence her spirit caught | K |
| As rapt she listened heeding not | K |
| The darkness drawing nigh | I |
| - | |
| 'Mid novelty and sweet surprise | L |
| Her soul enraptured seemed to rise | L |
| And tread the realms of Paradise | M |
| Her shivering limbs grew warm | N |
| And as the shadows longer crept | O |
| Across the chancel angels kept | O |
| Their vigils o'er her as she slept | O |
| Secure from cold and storm | N |
| - | |
| No sound her peaceful slumber broke | P |
| But one whose gentle face bespoke | P |
| True goodness took her costly cloak | P |
| In tender thoughtful way | Q |
| And as the sleeper sweetly smiled | R |
| Perchance by dreams of Heaven beguiled | R |
| O'erspread the passive slumbering child | R |
| And softly stepped away | Q |
| - | |
| So rest thee child since Sorrow's dart | S |
| Has touched like thine the Saviour's heart | S |
| Thou hast a nearer dearer part | S |
| In his great love for thee | T |
| And when life's shadows all are gone | D |
| May Heaven reveal a brighter dawn | D |
| To thee who unaware hast drawn | D |
| Our hearts in sympathy | T |
Hattie Howard
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