An Allegory - An Old Lesson In A New Dress Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GEHEIJKJ ELELBJBJ MNJNOJPJ QNBNJERE STUTVJB| Here is a lantern my little boy | A |
| Said a father to his child | B |
| And yonder's a wood a lonely wood | C |
| Tangled and rough and wild | B |
| And now this night this very hour | D |
| Though gloomy and dark it be | E |
| By the single light of this lamp alone | F |
| You must cross the wild to me | E |
| - | |
| I'll be on the farther side my son | G |
| So follow the path you see | E |
| And at the end of this narrow way | H |
| Awaiting you I will be | E |
| Thus bidden the child set out but soon | I |
| With the gloomy waste ahead | J |
| Oppressed with terror and doubt he stopped | K |
| Shaking with fear and dread | J |
| - | |
| Father father I cannot see | E |
| The forest is thick and black | L |
| I'm sure there is danger ahead of me | E |
| Please father call me back | L |
| But the father's voice through the gloomy wild | B |
| In answering accents said | J |
| Just keep in the light of your lamp my child | B |
| And don't look too far ahead | J |
| - | |
| Thus cheered the child pressed trustingly on | M |
| Though trembling much with fear | N |
| For around beyond and overhead | J |
| The forest was dark and drear | N |
| And ever to keep his courage up | O |
| To himself he softly said | J |
| He told me to keep in the light of my lamp | P |
| And not look too far ahead | J |
| - | |
| At length the other side was gained | Q |
| And lo the father was there | N |
| To welcome his child from the dreary wild | B |
| Where darkness and danger were | N |
| And why did you fear my son he said | J |
| You had plenty of light you see | E |
| Though it lit but a step at a time enough | R |
| To guide you safely to me | E |
| - | |
| And besides I was just ahead in the dark | S |
| Though you did not see me at all | T |
| To be sure that no evil or accident | U |
| Should my darling child befall | T |
| Then remember my son in life's darkest ways | V |
| The simple words that I said | J |
| 'Just keep in the light of your lamp my child | B |
| And not look too far ahead ' | - |
Pamela S. Vining, (j. C. Yule)
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