Ecce Homo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCDEEDFF GHIGJJ| A man of sorrows and with grief acquainted | A |
| He bowed His beauteous head to the rude hands | B |
| Of Pilate s hireling bands | B |
| And while beneath their cruel scourge He fainted | A |
| Forgave them yearning through His shameful smart | C |
| Even with a brother s heart | C |
| And when upon their Roman cross they nailed Him | D |
| With mocking hatred and scorn s bitter smile | E |
| Hark How He prayed the while | E |
| Nature s extremest agony assailed Him | D |
| Father Thy mercy unto these renew | F |
| They know not what they do | F |
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| For the great precept of His Christianity | G |
| Was always Live in charity yea live | H |
| To love and to forgive | I |
| That so My spirit may through all humanity | G |
| Pass ever downward with a widening birth | J |
| Till peace possess the earth | J |
Charles Harpur
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