The Convict. (from The Villager's Verse-book.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEBBFGHHII| Luke Andrews is transported Never more | A |
| To see his sisters mother or the shore | A |
| Of his own country Never more to see | B |
| The cottage smoke rise o'er the sheltering tree | B |
| Never again beneath the morning beam | C |
| Jocund to drive afield his tinkling team | C |
| When first the path of idleness he trod | D |
| And left on Sabbath days the house of God | D |
| The fellowship of wild companions kept | E |
| How oft at night his mother waked and wept | E |
| When he is homeless and far off at sea | B |
| She now will sigh Does he remember me | B |
| Remember her alas the thought is vain | F |
| She ne'er will see him in this world again | G |
| And she is broken hearted but her trust | H |
| Is still in Him whose works and ways are just | H |
| Oh may we still revere His dread command | I |
| And die remembered in our native land | I |
William Lisle Bowles
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