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 H2B2H2B2Come maids and matrons to caress | A |
Wiesbaden's gentle hind | B |
And smiling deck its glossy neck | C |
With forest flowers entwined | B |
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'Twas after church on Ascension day | D |
When organs ceased to sound | E |
Wiesbaden's people crowded gay | D |
The deer park's pleasant ground | E |
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Here came a twelve years' married pair | F |
And with them wander'd free | G |
Seven sons and daughters blooming fair | F |
A gladsome sight to see | G |
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Their Wilhelm little innocent | H |
The youngest of the seven | I |
Was beautiful as painters' paint | J |
The cherubim of heaven | I |
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By turns he gave his hand so dear | K |
To parent sister brother | L |
And each that he was safe and near | K |
Confided in the other | L |
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But Wilhelm loved the field flowers bright | M |
With love beyond all measure | L |
And cull'd them with as keen delight | M |
As misers gather treasure | L |
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Unnoticed he contrived to glide | N |
Adown a greenwood alley | G |
By lilies lured that grew beside | N |
A streamlet in the valley | G |
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And there where under beech and birch | O |
The rivulet meander'd | P |
He stray'd till neither shout nor search | O |
Could track where he had wander'd | P |
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Still louder with increasing dread | Q |
They call'd his darling name | R |
But 'twas like speaking to the dead | Q |
An echo only came | R |
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Hours pass'd till evening's beetle roams | S |
And blackbird's songs begin | T |
Then all went back to happy homes | S |
Save Wilhelm's kith and kin | T |
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The night came on all others slept | U |
Their cares away till morn | V |
But sleepless all night watch'd and wept | U |
That family forlorn | V |
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Betimes the town crier had been sent | W |
With loud bell up and down | X |
And told th' afflicting accident | H |
Throughout Wiesbaden's town | X |
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The news reach'd Nassau's Duke ere earth | Y |
Was gladden'd by the lark | Z |
He sent a hundred solders forth | A2 |
To ransack all his park | Z |
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But though they roused up beast and bird | P |
From many a nest and den | B2 |
No signal of success was heard | P |
From all the hundred men | B2 |
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A second morning's light expands | C2 |
Unfound the infant fair | F |
And Wilhelm's household wring their hands | C2 |
Abandon'd to despair | F |
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But haply a poor artizan | B2 |
Search'd ceaselessly till he | G |
Found safe asleep the little one | B2 |
Beneath a birchen tree | G |
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His hand still grasp'd a bunch of flowers | D2 |
And true though wondrous near | K |
To sentry his reposing hours | D2 |
There stood a female deer | K |
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Who dipp'd her horns at all that pass'd | E2 |
The spot where Wilhelm lay | D |
Till force was had to hold her fast | E2 |
And bear the boy away | D |
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Hail sacred love of childhood hail | F2 |
How sweet it is to trace | G2 |
Thine instinct in Creation's scale | F2 |
Even 'neath the human race | G2 |
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To this poor wanderer of the wild | H2 |
Speech reason were unknown | B2 |
And yet she watch'd a sleeping child | H2 |
As if it were her own | B2 |
Thomas Campbell
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