A Child's Pet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE BGHG IBJ KLMN| When I sailed out of Baltimore | A |
| With twice a thousand head of sheep | B |
| They would not eat they would not drink | C |
| But bleated o'er the deep | B |
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| Inside the pens we crawled each day | D |
| To sort the living from the dead | E |
| And when we reached the Mersey's mouth | F |
| Had lost five hundred head | E |
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| Yet every night and day one sheep | B |
| That had no fear of man or sea | G |
| Stuck through the bars its pleading face | H |
| And it was stroked by me | G |
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| And to the sheep men standing near | I |
| 'You see ' I said 'this one tame sheep | B |
| It seems a child has lost her pet | J |
| And cried herself to sleep ' | - |
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| So every time we passed it by | K |
| Sailing to England's slaughter house | L |
| Eight ragged sheep men tramps and thieves | M |
| Would stroke that sheep's black nose | N |
William Henry Davies
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