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 wild | A |
| And I am black but O my soul is white | B |
| White as an angel is the English child | A |
| But I am black as if bereav'd of light | B |
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| My mother taught me underneath a tree | C |
| And sitting down before the heat of day | D |
| She took me on her lap and kissed me | C |
| And pointing to the east began to say | D |
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| Look on the rising sun there God does live | E |
| And gives his light and gives his heat away | D |
| And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive | F |
| Comfort in morning joy in the noon day | D |
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| And we are put on earth a little space | G |
| That we may learn to bear the beams of love | H |
| And these black bodies and this sun burnt face | G |
| Is but a cloud and like a shady grove | I |
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| For when our souls have learn'd the heat to bear | J |
| The cloud will vanish we shall hear his voice | K |
| Saying come out from the grove my love amp care | J |
| And round my golden tent like lambs rejoice | K |
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| Thus did my mother say and kissed me | C |
| And thus I say to little English boy | L |
| When I from black and he from white cloud free | C |
| And round the tent of God like lambs we joy | L |
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| Ill shade him from the heat till he can bear | J |
| To lean in joy upon our fathers knee | C |
| And then I'll stand and stroke his silver hair | J |
| And be like him and he will then love me | C |
William Blake
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