A Little Dog Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDDE FGGFHIIH JDDJKDDK CLLCDEED MDDMNDDN DGGDAOPA NQRNNAAN DNNDSDDTU NNUA 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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