Lost And Found Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFCB GDCB CHGH GDIB CDGB CDJB KDLB GDEB MBCD CDCB CENB| In a southern city lived a wealthy family | A |
| In a southern city was the happy home | B |
| Of a father and mother and a little daughter | C |
| In peace and contentment they lived alone | D |
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| But one summer evening there happened a misfortune | E |
| Which caused the parents to weep and mourn | F |
| For this little daughter a loving little treasure | C |
| Was a poor little wanderer far far from home | B |
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| It happened thus the mother went out calling | G |
| On a widow friend who lived all alone | D |
| She left her little daughter in the care of her father | C |
| And through his neglect she wandered from home | B |
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| The father rocked his child till her eyes closed in slumber | C |
| Thought he to himself I'll go over across the way | H |
| And see a neighbor friend he'll be there this evening | G |
| And I must see him before he goes away | H |
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| He left his little one he supposed sweetly sleeping | G |
| In her little cradle in the house alone | D |
| And in his great hurry he left the gate ajar | I |
| This thoughtlessness caused destruction to his home | B |
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| Soon after he was gone she awoke from her slumber | C |
| Poor child she then found herself all alone | D |
| For no one was there no one heard her weeping | G |
| As she wandered away far far from home | B |
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| She wandered along on the busy thoroughbare | C |
| No one seemed to notice this little one alone | D |
| She wandered down Broadway till the little feet were tired | J |
| This poor little wanderer far away from home | B |
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| At last getting weary she sat down on the pavement | K |
| And soon fell asleep so tired had she grown | D |
| In her troubled sleep she would softly murmur papa | L |
| This poor little lost one so far away from home | B |
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| A policeman came along and saw her sweetly sleeping | G |
| On the pavement at midnight alone | D |
| He gently picked her up and took her to the station | E |
| This poor little wanderer far away from home | B |
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| He advertised but could not find her parents | M |
| At last he took her to the orphan home | B |
| Where she lived till a farmer in the country | C |
| Took her to live with him this wanderer alone | D |
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| The father died o'er the loss of his daughter | C |
| The mother sought for her three years alone | D |
| At last she found her with kind people in the country | C |
| Her poor little wanderer far away from home | B |
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| Kind people can imagine the joy of the mother | C |
| When she found her little loving one | E |
| Oh God exclaimed the mother I have found my little Alice | N |
| My poor little wanderer far away from home | B |
Julia Ann Moore
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