The Dutiful Child (from The Villager's Verse-book.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDDEEFFGHIIJJKKLJ| READING THE STORY OF JOSEPH TO A SICK FATHER | A |
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| Brother and sister are a Maying gone | B |
| By my sick father's bed I watch alone | C |
| Light in the sun from field to field they roam | D |
| To bring a cowslip ball or May thorn home | D |
| I sit and read of Joseph in the land | E |
| Of Egypt when his guilty brothers stand | E |
| Before him but they know him not aside | F |
| He turns his face the bursting tears to hide | F |
| Scarce to these words an utterance can he give | G |
| I am your brother Joseph Doth he live | H |
| My father the old man of whom ye speak | I |
| And tears are falling on my father's cheek | I |
| Though my loved mother rests among the dead | J |
| And pain and sickness visit this sad bed | J |
| We think not whilst we turn the holy page | K |
| Of this vain world of sorrow and of age | K |
| And oh my father I am blessed indeed | L |
| Blessed for your sake that I have learned to read | J |
William Lisle Bowles
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