Calvary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBABA CDCEED| Friendless and faint with martyred steps and slow | A |
| Faint for the flesh but for the spirit free | B |
| Stung by the mob that came to see the show | A |
| The Master toiled along to Calvary | B |
| We gibed him as he went with houndish glee | B |
| Till his dimmed eyes for us did overflow | A |
| We cursed his vengeless hands thrice wretchedly | B |
| And this was nineteen hundred years ago | A |
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| But after nineteen hundred years the shame | C |
| Still clings and we have not made good the loss | D |
| That outraged faith has entered in his name | C |
| Ah when shall come love's courage to be strong | E |
| Tell me O Lord tell me O Lord how long | E |
| Are we to keep Christ writhing on the cross | D |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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