There Is No God, The Wicked Sayeth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGEEEHIEIJKIK AILIMNONPQRQ| There is no God the wicked saith | A |
| And truly it's a blessing | B |
| For what He might have done with us | C |
| It's better only guessing | B |
| There is no God a youngster thinks | D |
| or really if there may be | E |
| He surely did not mean a man | F |
| Always to be a baby | E |
| There is no God or if there is | G |
| The tradesman thinks 'twere funny | E |
| If He should take it ill in me | E |
| To make a little money | E |
| Whether there be the rich man says | H |
| It matters very little | I |
| For I and mine thank somebody | E |
| Are not in want of victual | I |
| Some others also to themselves | J |
| Who scarce so much as doubt it | K |
| Think there is none when they are well | I |
| And do not think about it | K |
| But country folks who live beneath | A |
| The shadow of the steeple | I |
| The parson and the parson's wife | L |
| And mostly married people | I |
| Youths green and happy in first love | M |
| So thankful for illusion | N |
| And men caught out in what the world | O |
| Calls guilt in first confusion | N |
| And almost everyone when age | P |
| Disease or sorrows strike him | Q |
| Inclines to think there is a God | R |
| Or something very like Him | Q |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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