The Beggar Family Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE CGHGIJKJ LMNMOPQP DRCRSTUT VJWJXJYJ ZA2QPZB2C2B2 D2JE2JF2JG2J H2F2ZF2AQI2Q J2I2K2I2TGJ2G| Within the court before the judge | A |
| There stand six wretched creatures | B |
| They're lame and weary one and all | C |
| With pinched and pallid features | B |
| The father is a broken man | D |
| The mother weak and ailing | E |
| The little children skin and bone | F |
| With fear and hunger wailing | E |
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| Their sins are very great and call | C |
| Aloud for retribution | G |
| For their's maybe you guess the crime | H |
| Of hopeless destitution | G |
| They look upon the judge's face | I |
| They know what judges ponder | J |
| They know the punishment that waits | K |
| On those that beg and wander | J |
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| For months from justice they have fled | L |
| Along the streets and highways | M |
| From farm to farm from town to town | N |
| Along the lanes and byways | M |
| They've slept full oftentimes in jail | O |
| They're known in many places | P |
| Yet still they live for all the woe | Q |
| That's stamped upon their faces | P |
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| The woman's chill with fear The man | D |
| Implores the judge Oh tell us | R |
| What will you With our children small | C |
| Relentlessly expel us | R |
| Oh let us be We'll sleep at night | S |
| In corners dark the city | T |
| Has room for all And some kind soul | U |
| Will give a crust in pity | T |
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| For wife and children I will toil | V |
| It cannot be much longer | J |
| For God almighty is and good | W |
| Ere I for work am stronger | J |
| Oh let us here with men remain | X |
| Nor drive us any further | J |
| Oh why our curses will you have | Y |
| And not our blessings rather | J |
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| And now the sick man quails before | Z |
| The judge's piercing glances | A2 |
| No only two of you shall go | Q |
| This time and take your chances | P |
| Your wife and you The children four | Z |
| You'll leave my man behind you | B2 |
| For them within the Orphan's Home | C2 |
| Free places I will find you | B2 |
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| The father's dumb the mother shrieks | D2 |
| My babes and me you'd sever | J |
| If God there be such cruel act | E2 |
| Shall find forgiveness never | J |
| But first oh judge must you condemn | F2 |
| To death their wretched mother | J |
| I cannot leave my children dear | G2 |
| With you or any other | J |
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| I bore and nursed them struggling still | H2 |
| To shelter and to shield them | F2 |
| Oh judge I'll beg from door to door | Z |
| My very life blood yield them | F2 |
| I know you do not mean it judge | A |
| With us poor folk you're jesting | Q |
| Give back my babes and further yet | I2 |
| We'll wander unprotesting | Q |
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| The judge alas has turned away | J2 |
| The paper dread unrolled | I2 |
| And useless all the mother's grief | K2 |
| The wild and uncontrolled | I2 |
| More cruel can a sentence be | T |
| Than that which now is given | G |
| Oh cursed the system 'neath whose sway | J2 |
| The human heart is riven | G |
Morris Rosenfeld
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