The Little Girl Found Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD BBEE DDFF GGAA HHII CCJJ IIKK LLMM CCNN OPBB QOEE RRSS| All the night in woe | A |
| Lyca's parents go | A |
| Over vallies deep | B |
| While the desarts weep | B |
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| Tired and woe begone | C |
| Hoarse with making moan | C |
| Arm in arm seven days | D |
| They trac'd the desert ways | D |
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| Seven nights they sleep | B |
| Among shadows deep | B |
| And dream they see their child | E |
| Starvdd in desart wild | E |
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| Pale thro' pathless ways | D |
| The fancied image strays | D |
| Famish'd weeping weak | F |
| With hollow piteous shriek | F |
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| Rising from unrest | G |
| The trembling woman prest | G |
| With feet of weary woe | A |
| She could no further go | A |
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| In his arms he bore | H |
| Her arm'd with sorrow sore | H |
| Till before their way | I |
| A couching lion lay | I |
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| Turning back was vain | C |
| Soon his heavy mane | C |
| Bore them to the ground | J |
| Then he stalk'd around | J |
| - | |
| Smelling to his prey | I |
| But their fears allay | I |
| When he licks their hands | K |
| And silent by them stands | K |
| - | |
| They look upon his eyes | L |
| Fill'd with deep surprise | L |
| And wondering behold | M |
| A spirit arm'd in gold | M |
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| On his head a crown | C |
| On his shoulders down | C |
| Flow'd his golden hair | N |
| Gone was all their care | N |
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| Follow me he said | O |
| Weep not for the maid | P |
| In my palace deep | B |
| Lyca lies asleep | B |
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| Then they followed | Q |
| Where the vision led | O |
| And saw their sleeping child | E |
| Among tygers wild | E |
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| To this day they dwell | R |
| In a lonely dell | R |
| Nor fear the wolvish howl | S |
| Nor the lion's growl | S |
William Blake
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