Poet William Blake

William Blake

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The Little Black Boy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EDFD GHGI JKJK CLCL JCJC

My mother bore me in the southern wildA
And I am black but O my soul is whiteB
White as an angel is the English childA
But I am black as if bereav'd of lightB
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My mother taught me underneath a treeC
And sitting down before the heat of dayD
She took me on her lap and kissed meC
And pointing to the east began to sayD
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Look on the rising sun there God does liveE
And gives his light and gives his heat awayD
And flowers and trees and beasts and men receiveF
Comfort in morning joy in the noon dayD
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And we are put on earth a little spaceG
That we may learn to bear the beams of loveH
And these black bodies and this sun burnt faceG
Is but a cloud and like a shady groveI
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For when our souls have learn'd the heat to bearJ
The cloud will vanish we shall hear his voiceK
Saying come out from the grove my love amp careJ
And round my golden tent like lambs rejoiceK
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Thus did my mother say and kissed meC
And thus I say to little English boyL
When I from black and he from white cloud freeC
And round the tent of God like lambs we joyL
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Ill shade him from the heat till he can bearJ
To lean in joy upon our fathers kneeC
And then I'll stand and stroke his silver hairJ
And be like him and he will then love meC

William Blake



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