The Chimney-sweeper Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ KLMN| When my mother died I was very young | A |
| And my father sold me while yet my tongue | A |
| Could scarcely cry Weep weep weep weep | B |
| So your chimneys I sweep and in soot I sleep | B |
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| There's little Tom Dacre who cried when his head | C |
| That curled like a lamb's back was shaved so I said | C |
| Hush Tom never mind it for when your head's bare | D |
| You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair | D |
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| And so he was quiet and that very night | E |
| As Tom was a sleeping he had such a sight | E |
| That thousands of sweepers Dick Joe Ned and Jack | F |
| Were all of them locked up in coffins of black | F |
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| And by came an angel who had a bright key | G |
| And he opened the coffins and let them all free | G |
| Then down a green plain leaping laughing they run | H |
| And wash in a river and shine in the sun | H |
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| Then naked and white all their bags left behind | I |
| They rise upon clouds and sport in the wind | I |
| And the Angel told Tom if he'd be a good boy | J |
| He'd have God for his father and never want joy | J |
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| And so Tom awoke and we rose in the dark | K |
| And got with our bags and our brushes to work | L |
| Though the morning was cold Tom was happy and warm | M |
| So if all do their duty they need not fear harm | N |
William Blake
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