The Confession Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHGHIJIJ KLKLMGMG BNBOGEGE JBJBOPO| I HAVEN'T always acted good | A |
| I've taken things not meant for me | B |
| Not other people's drink and food | C |
| But things they never seemed to see | B |
| I haven't done the way I ought | D |
| If all they say in church is true | E |
| But all I've had I've fairly bought | F |
| And paid for pretty heavy too | E |
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| For days and weeks are very long | G |
| If you get nothing new and bright | H |
| And if you never do no wrong | G |
| Somehow you never do no right | H |
| The chap that daresent go a yard | I |
| For fear the path should lead astray | J |
| May be a saint though that seems hard | I |
| But he's no traveller any way | J |
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| Some things I can't be sorry for | K |
| The things that silly people hate | L |
| But some I did I do deplore | K |
| I knew inside they wasn't straight | L |
| And when my last account is filed | M |
| And stuck up angels stop their song | G |
| I'll ask God's pardon like a child | M |
| For what I really knew was wrong | G |
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| If you've a child you'd rather see | B |
| A bit of temper off and on | N |
| A greedy grab a silly spree | B |
| And then a brave thing said or done | O |
| Than hear your boy whine all day long | G |
| About the things he musn't do | E |
| Just doing nothing right or wrong | G |
| And God may feel the same as you | E |
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| For God's our Father so they say | J |
| He made His laws and He made me | B |
| He'll understand about the way | J |
| Me and His laws could not agree | B |
| He might say 'You're worth more My son | O |
| Than all My laws since law began | P |
| Take good with bad here's something done | O |
| And I'm your God and you're My man ' | - |
Edith Nesbit
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