Sheepfold. (from The Villager's Verse-book.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF DGDG| The sheep were in the fold at night | A |
| And now a new born lamb | B |
| Totters and trembles in the light | A |
| Or bleats beside its dam | B |
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| How anxiously the mother tries | C |
| With every tender care | D |
| To screen it from inclement skies | C |
| And the cold morning air | D |
| - | |
| The hailstorm of the east is fled | E |
| She seems with joy to swell | F |
| Whilst ever as she bends her head | E |
| I hear the tinkling bell | F |
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| So while for me a mother's prayer | D |
| Ascends to heaven above | G |
| May I repay her tender care | D |
| With gratitude and love | G |
William Lisle Bowles
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