If Christ Came Questioning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDABB EBFFFBB GBHHGBB IBJJIBB KBLMKBB NBFFNB| If Christ came questioning His world to day | A |
| If Christ came questioning | B |
| 'What hast thou done to glorify thy God | C |
| Since last My feet this lower earth plane trod ' | D |
| How could I answer Him and in what way | A |
| One evidence of my allegiance bring | B |
| If Christ came questioning | B |
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| If Christ came questioning to me alone | E |
| If Christ came questioning | B |
| I could not point to any church or shrine | F |
| And say 'I helped build up this house of Thine | F |
| Behold the altar and the corner stone' | F |
| I could not show one proof of such a thing | B |
| If Christ came questioning | B |
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| If Christ came questioning on His demand | G |
| If Christ came questioning | B |
| No pagan soul converted to His creed | H |
| Could I proclaim or say that word or deed | H |
| Of mine had spread the faith in any land | G |
| Or sent it forth to fly on stronger wing | B |
| If Christ came questioning | B |
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| If Christ came questioning the soul of me | I |
| If Christ came questioning | B |
| I could but answer 'Lord my little part | J |
| Has been to beat the metal of my heart | J |
| Into the shape I thought most fit for Thee | I |
| And at Thy feet to cast the offering | B |
| Shouldst Thou come questioning | B |
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| 'From out the earth fed furnaces of desire | K |
| Ere Thou cam'st questioning | B |
| This formless and unfinished gift I brought | L |
| And on life's anvil flung it down white hot | M |
| A glowing thing of selfishness and fire | K |
| With blow on blow I made the anvil ring | B |
| Ere Thou cam'st questioning | B |
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| 'The hammer Self Control beat hard on it | N |
| Ere Thou cam'st questioning | B |
| And with each blow rose fiery sparks of pain | F |
| I bear their scars on body soul and brain | F |
| Long long I toiled and yet dear Lord unfit | N |
| And all unworthy is the heart I bring | B |
| To meet Thy questioning ' | - |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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