Oh, Poor, Sick World Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CACA DCDC EFGHI CJKLMFNOPQRO STUV WXYHZA2B2C2 AACC F| Lord of all the Universe when I think of YOU | A |
| Flinging stars out into space moving suns and tides | B |
| Then this little mortal mind gets the larger view | A |
| And the carping self of me runs away and hides | B |
| - | |
| Then I see all shadowed paths leading out to Light | C |
| See the false things fade away leaving but the True | A |
| See the wrong things slay themselves leaving only Right | C |
| When this little mortal mind gets the larger view | A |
| - | |
| Cavillings at this and that censure doubt and fear | D |
| Fly as fly before the dawn insects of the night | C |
| Life and Death are understood everything seems clear | D |
| All the wrong things slay themselves leaving only Right | C |
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| The World has walked with fever in its veins | E |
| For many and many a day Oh poor sick world | F |
| Not knowing all its dreams of greed and gain | G |
| Of selfish conquest and possession were | H |
| Disordered visions of a brain diseased | I |
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| Now the World's malady is at its height | C |
| And there is foul contagion in its breath | J |
| It raves of death and slaughter and the stars | K |
| Shake with reverberations of its cries | L |
| And the sad seas are troubled and disturbed | M |
| So must it rave this sick and suffering world | F |
| Until the old secretions in its blood | N |
| Are emptied out and purged away by war | O |
| And the deep seated cankers of the mind | P |
| Begin the healing process Then a calm | Q |
| Shall come upon the earth and that loved word | R |
| PEACE shall be understood from shore to shore | O |
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| Shriek on mad world The great Physician sits | S |
| Serenely conscious of the coming change | T |
| Nor seeks to check the fever it must run | U |
| Until its course is finished He can wait | V |
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| In his vast Solar Systems he has seen | W |
| So many other worlds as sick as this | X |
| He feels but pity for his ailing charge | Y |
| Not blame or anger And he knows the hour | H |
| Will surely dawn when that sick child shall wake | Z |
| Free from all frenzied fancies and shall turn | A2 |
| Clear seeing eyes upon the face of God | B2 |
| Then shall begin the new millennium | C2 |
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| Lord of all the Universe when I think of YOU | A |
| Then this little mortal mind gets the larger view | A |
| Then I see all shadowed paths leading into Light | C |
| Where the wrong things slay themselves leaving only Right | C |
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| Oh poor sick world | F |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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