The Child's Appeal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BACA DEFE GHIH JKLK MNHN OAPA LLLL QABA ELRL SADA TAUA ALVL LWXW LKYK ZAA2A| An Incident Of The French Revolution And Reign Of Robespierre | A |
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| Day dawned above a city's mart | B |
| Yet not 'mid peace and prayer | A |
| The shouts of frenzied multitudes | C |
| Were on the thrilling air | A |
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| A guiltless man to death was led | D |
| Through crowded streets and wide | E |
| And a fairy child with waving curls | F |
| Was clinging to his side | E |
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| The father's brow with pride was calm | G |
| But trusting and serene | H |
| The child's was like the Holy One's | I |
| In Raphael's paintings seen | H |
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| She shrank not from the heartless throng | J |
| Nor from the scaffold high | K |
| But now and then with beaming smile | L |
| Addressed her parent's eye | K |
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| Athwart the golden flood of morn | M |
| Was poised the wing of Death | N |
| As 'neath the fearful guillotine | H |
| The doomed one drew his breath | N |
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| Then all of fiercest agony | O |
| The human heart can bear | A |
| Was suffered in the brief caress | P |
| The wild half uttered prayer | A |
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| Then she the child beseechingly | L |
| Upraised her eyes of blue | L |
| And whispered while her cheek grew pale | L |
| I am to go with you | L |
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| The murmur of impatient fiends | Q |
| Rang in her infant ear | A |
| And purpose strong woke in her heart | B |
| And spoke in accent clear | A |
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| They tore my mother from our side | E |
| In the dark prison's cell | L |
| Her eyes were filled with tears she had | R |
| No time to say farewell | L |
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| And you were all that loved me then | S |
| And you are pale with care | A |
| And every night a silver thread | D |
| Has mingled with your hair | A |
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| My mother used to tell me of | T |
| A better land afar | A |
| I've seen it through the prison bars | U |
| Where burns the evening star | A |
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| O let us find a new home there | A |
| I will be brave and true | L |
| You cannot leave me here alone | V |
| O let me die with you | L |
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| The gentle tones were drowned by shrill | L |
| And long protracted cries | W |
| The father on his darling gazed | X |
| The child looked on the skies | W |
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| Anon far up the cloudless blue | L |
| Unseen by mortal eye | K |
| God's angels with two spirits passed | Y |
| To purer realms on high | K |
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| The one was touched with earthly hues | Z |
| And dim with earthly care | A |
| The other as a lily's cup | A2 |
| Unutterably fair | A |
Mary Gardiner Horsford
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