A Little Dog Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDDE FGGFHIIH JDDJKDDK CLLCDEED MDDMNDDN DGGDAOPA NQRNNAAN DNNDSDDTU NNU| A little dog disturbed my trust in Heaven | A |
| I praised most faithfully | B |
| All the great things that be | B |
| Man's pain and pleasure even | C |
| I said though hard this weighing | D |
| Of pains and tears and praying | D |
| He will reward most just | E |
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| I said your bitter weeping man or maid | F |
| Your tears or laughter | G |
| Shall gain a just Hereafter | G |
| Meet you the will of God then unafraid | F |
| Gird you to your trials for God's abode | H |
| Is open for all sorrow | I |
| Live for the great to morrow | I |
| There passed me on the road | H |
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| A little dog with hungry eyes and sad | J |
| Thin flesh all shivering | D |
| All sore and quivering | D |
| Whining beneath the fell disease he had | J |
| I hurried home and praised God as before | K |
| For thus affording | D |
| To man rewarding | D |
| The dog was whining outside my door | K |
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| I flung it wide and said Come enter in | C |
| Outcast of God | L |
| Beneath His rod | L |
| You suffer sore poor beast that had no sin | C |
| Not at my door then must you cry complaining | D |
| Your lot unjust | E |
| But His who thrust | E |
| You from His door your body maiming | D |
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| Not mine the pleasure that you bear this pain | M |
| Hurled into being | D |
| Without hope of freeing | D |
| By grief and patience a soul for any gain | M |
| Thus I reproached God while I tended | N |
| The sores to healing | D |
| A voice stealing | D |
| And whispering out of the beast I friended | N |
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| Said God had quickened my flesh bestowing | D |
| Joys without measure | G |
| Made for its pleasure | G |
| An Eden's garden for ever glowing | D |
| Gave me to Man his care and protection | A |
| To gain and to give | O |
| And bid us so live | P |
| In united bonds of help and affection | A |
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| Man wrecked our garden so we were hurled | N |
| Out from the skies | Q |
| Of Paradise | R |
| Into the sorrows of a weeping world | N |
| He forgets my care I as God has said | N |
| Give still affection | A |
| For that connection | A |
| Which into all our bodies life has breathed | N |
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| And why are you abusing God and praising | D |
| With mock effacement | N |
| And false abasement | N |
| Your own heart's kindness deeming it amazing | D |
| That you should do this duty for my sake | S |
| Which is His bidding | D |
| Nor blame for ridding | D |
| Himself of me your neighbour he who spake hard words | T |
| Hard words and drove me forth all sore and ill | U |
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| Thus while I tended | N |
| This dog I friended | N |
| Gave back my faith in Heaven by God's will | U |
Dora Sigerson Shorter
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