The Wandering Boy (a Song) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EECD FFGG HHCD GGCD| When the winter wind whistles along the wild moor | A |
| And the cottager shuts on the beggar his door | B |
| When the chilling tear stands in my comfortless eye | C |
| Oh how hard is the lot of the Wandering Boy | D |
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| The winter is cold and I have no vest | E |
| And my heart it is cold as it beats in my breast | E |
| No father no mother no kindred have I | C |
| For I am a parentless Wandering Boy | D |
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| Yet I had a home and I once had a sire | F |
| A mother who granted each infant desire | F |
| Our cottage it stood in a wood embower'd vale | G |
| Where the ringdove would warble its sorrowful tale | G |
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| But my father and mother were summoned away | H |
| And they left me to hard hearted strangers a prey | H |
| I fled from their rigour with many a sigh | C |
| And now I'm a poor little Wandering Boy | D |
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| The wind it is keen and the snow loads the gale | G |
| And no one will list to my innocent tale | G |
| I'll go to the grave where my parents both lie | C |
| And death shall befriend the poor Wandering Boy | D |
Henry Kirk White
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