'me, A Sinner' Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHAH AFAFCDCD| Should it occasion much surprise | A |
| That criminals should deal in blame | B |
| As all of us and recognise | A |
| The full depth of another's shame | B |
| The burglar blames the bigamist | C |
| As something partially insane | D |
| And Bluebeards equally insist | C |
| That burglars are a sinful bane | D |
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| And getting further up the scale | E |
| To normal men like you and I | F |
| The rule is never known to fail | E |
| While egotism throned on high | F |
| Sets cunning traps for you and me | G |
| Blind with the illusion of our worth | H |
| To ape the smirking Pharisee | A |
| And see sin stalking o'er the earth | H |
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| In a community of saints | A |
| Where all sins save fault finding die | F |
| One still might look for grave complaints | A |
| Concerning haloes worn awry | F |
| But as this sinful earth is trod | C |
| He who of Jezebel or Cain | D |
| Says 'There but for the grace of God | C |
| Go I ' is the most nearly sane | D |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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