The Two Questions Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGHG IGJG KLKL EMEM NGNG| A riddling world one cried | A |
| If pangs must be would God that they were sent | B |
| To the impure the cruel and passed aside | A |
| The holy innocent | C |
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| But I Ah no no no | D |
| Not the clean heart transpierced not tears that fall | E |
| For a child's agony not a martyr's woe | D |
| Not these not these appal | E |
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| Not docile motherhood | F |
| Dutiful frequent closed in all distress | G |
| Not shedding of the unoffending blood | H |
| Not little joy grown less | G |
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| Not all benign old age | I |
| With dotage mocked not gallantry that faints | G |
| And still pursues not the vile heritage | J |
| Of sin's disease in saints | G |
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| Not these defeat the mind | K |
| For great is that abjection and august | L |
| That irony Submissive we shall find | K |
| A splendour in that dust | L |
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| Not these puzzle the will | E |
| Not these the yet unanswered question urge | M |
| But the unjust stricken but the hands that kill | E |
| Lopped but the merited scourge | M |
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| The sensualist at fast | N |
| The merciless felled the liar in his snares | G |
| The cowardice of my judgment sees aghast | N |
| The flail the chaff the tares | G |
Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell
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