The Good Man In Hell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDF GHGH IAIA JKJK| If a good man were ever housed in Hell | A |
| By needful error of the qualities | B |
| Perhaps to prove the rule or shame the devil | C |
| Or speak the truth only a stranger sees | B |
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| Would he surrendering quick to obvious hate | D |
| Fill half eternity with cries and tears | E |
| Or watch beside Hell's little wicket gate | D |
| In patience for the first ten thousand years | F |
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| Feeling the curse climb slowly to his throat | G |
| That uttered dooms him to rescindless ill | H |
| Forcing his praying tongue to run by rote | G |
| Eternity entire before him still | H |
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| Would he at last grown faithful in his station | I |
| Kindle a little hope in hopeless Hell | A |
| And sow among the damned doubts of damnation | I |
| Since here someone could live and live well | A |
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| One doubt of evil would bring down such a grace | J |
| Open such a gate and Eden could enter in | K |
| Hell be a place like any other place | J |
| And love and hate and life and death begin | K |
Edwin Muir
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