The Child And The Hind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HIJI KLKL MLML NGNG OPOP QRQR STST UVUV WXHX YZA2Z PB2PB2 C2FC2F B2GB2G D2KD2K E2DE2D F2G2F2G2 H2B2H2B2

Come maids and matrons to caressA
Wiesbaden's gentle hindB
And smiling deck its glossy neckC
With forest flowers entwinedB
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'Twas after church on Ascension dayD
When organs ceased to soundE
Wiesbaden's people crowded gayD
The deer park's pleasant groundE
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Here came a twelve years' married pairF
And with them wander'd freeG
Seven sons and daughters blooming fairF
A gladsome sight to seeG
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Their Wilhelm little innocentH
The youngest of the sevenI
Was beautiful as painters' paintJ
The cherubim of heavenI
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By turns he gave his hand so dearK
To parent sister brotherL
And each that he was safe and nearK
Confided in the otherL
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But Wilhelm loved the field flowers brightM
With love beyond all measureL
And cull'd them with as keen delightM
As misers gather treasureL
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Unnoticed he contrived to glideN
Adown a greenwood alleyG
By lilies lured that grew besideN
A streamlet in the valleyG
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And there where under beech and birchO
The rivulet meander'dP
He stray'd till neither shout nor searchO
Could track where he had wander'dP
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Still louder with increasing dreadQ
They call'd his darling nameR
But 'twas like speaking to the deadQ
An echo only cameR
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Hours pass'd till evening's beetle roamsS
And blackbird's songs beginT
Then all went back to happy homesS
Save Wilhelm's kith and kinT
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The night came on all others sleptU
Their cares away till mornV
But sleepless all night watch'd and weptU
That family forlornV
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Betimes the town crier had been sentW
With loud bell up and downX
And told th' afflicting accidentH
Throughout Wiesbaden's townX
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The news reach'd Nassau's Duke ere earthY
Was gladden'd by the larkZ
He sent a hundred solders forthA2
To ransack all his parkZ
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But though they roused up beast and birdP
From many a nest and denB2
No signal of success was heardP
From all the hundred menB2
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A second morning's light expandsC2
Unfound the infant fairF
And Wilhelm's household wring their handsC2
Abandon'd to despairF
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But haply a poor artizanB2
Search'd ceaselessly till heG
Found safe asleep the little oneB2
Beneath a birchen treeG
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His hand still grasp'd a bunch of flowersD2
And true though wondrous nearK
To sentry his reposing hoursD2
There stood a female deerK
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Who dipp'd her horns at all that pass'dE2
The spot where Wilhelm layD
Till force was had to hold her fastE2
And bear the boy awayD
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Hail sacred love of childhood hailF2
How sweet it is to traceG2
Thine instinct in Creation's scaleF2
Even 'neath the human raceG2
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To this poor wanderer of the wildH2
Speech reason were unknownB2
And yet she watch'd a sleeping childH2
As if it were her ownB2

Thomas Campbell



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