All Roads That Lead To God Are Good Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHHG IJJI KLLM ABBA| All roads that lead to God are good | A |
| What matters it your faith or mine | B |
| Both centre at the goal divine | B |
| Of love's eternal Brotherhood | A |
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| The kindly life in house or street | C |
| The life of prayer and mystic rite | D |
| The student's search for truth and light | D |
| These paths at one great Junction meet | C |
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| Before the oldest book was writ | E |
| Full many a prehistoric soul | F |
| Arrived at this unchanging goal | F |
| Through changeless Love that leads to it | E |
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| What matters that one found his Christ | G |
| In rising sun or burning fire | H |
| If faith within him did not tire | H |
| His longing for the Truth sufficed | G |
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| Before our modern hell was brought | I |
| To edify the modern world | J |
| Full many a hate filled soul was hurled | J |
| In lakes of fire by its own thought | I |
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| A thousand creeds have come and gone | K |
| But what is that to you or me | L |
| Creeds are but branches of a tree | L |
| The root of love lives on and on | M |
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| Though branch by branch proves withered wood | A |
| The root is warm with precious wine | B |
| Then keep your faith and leave me mine | B |
| All roads that lead to God are good | A |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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