A Little Boy Lost Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK FMNM OEME| Nought loves another as itself | A |
| Nor venerates another so | B |
| Nor is it possible to Thought | C |
| A greater than itself to know | B |
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| And Father how can I love you | D |
| Or any of my brothers more | E |
| I love you like the little bird | F |
| That picks up crumbs around the door | E |
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| The Priest sat by and heard the child | G |
| In trembling zeal he siez'd his hair | H |
| He led him by his little coat | I |
| And all admir'd his Priestly care | H |
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| And standing on the altar high | J |
| Lo what a fiend is here said he | K |
| One who sets reason up for judge | L |
| Of our most holy Mystery | K |
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| The weeping child could not be heard | F |
| The weeping parents wept in vain | M |
| They strip'd him to his little shirt | N |
| And bound him in an iron chain | M |
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| And burn'd him in a holy place | O |
| Where many had been burn'd before | E |
| The weeping parents wept in vain | M |
| Are such things done on Albions shore | E |
William Blake
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