The Laws Of God, The Laws Of Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KBAA| The laws of God the laws of man | A |
| He may keep that will and can | A |
| Not I let God and man decree | B |
| Laws for themselves and not for me | B |
| And if my ways are not as theirs | C |
| Let them mind their own affairs | C |
| Their deeds I judge and much condemn | D |
| Yet when did I make laws for them | D |
| Please yourselves say I and they | E |
| Need only look the other way | E |
| But no they will not they must still | F |
| Wrest their neighbor to their will | F |
| And make me dance as they desire | G |
| With jail and gallows and hell fire | G |
| And how am I to face the odds | H |
| Of man's bedevilment and God's | H |
| I a stranger and afraid | I |
| In a world I never made | I |
| They will be master right or wrong | J |
| Though both are foolish both are strong | J |
| And since my soul we cannot fly | K |
| To Saturn nor to Mercury | B |
| Keep we must if keep we can | A |
| These foreign laws of God and man | A |
Alfred Edward Housman
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