A Little Girl Lost Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDDD EEDDD FFGHH IIJJJ DDKKK LLHEEChildren of the future Age | A |
Reading this indignant page | A |
Know that in a former time | B |
Love sweet Love was thought a crime | B |
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In the Age of Gold | C |
Free from winters cold | C |
Youth and maiden bright | D |
To the holy light | D |
Naked in the sunny beams delight | D |
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Once a youthful pair | E |
Fill'd with softest care | E |
Met in garden bright | D |
Where the holy light | D |
Had just removed the curtains of the night | D |
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There in rising day | F |
On the grass they play | F |
Parents were afar | G |
Strangers came not near | H |
And the maiden soon forgot her fear | H |
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Tired with kisses sweet | I |
They agree to meet | I |
When the silent sleep | J |
Waves o'er heavens deep | J |
And the weary tired wanderers weep | J |
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To her father white | D |
Came the maiden bright | D |
But his loving look | K |
Like the holy book | K |
All her tender limbs with terror shook | K |
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Ona pale and weak | L |
To thy father speak | L |
O the trembling fear | H |
O the dismal care | E |
That shakes the blossoms of my hoary hair | E |
William Blake
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