Shadows Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA BCBC BABA BABA BDBD AEAE| I am sorry in the gladness | A |
| Of the joys that crown my days | A |
| For the souls that sit in sadness | A |
| Or walk uninviting ways | A |
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| On the radiance of my labour | B |
| That a loving fate bestowed | C |
| Falls the shadow of my neighbour | B |
| Crushed beneath a thankless load | C |
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| As the canticle of pleasure | B |
| From my lovelit altar rolls | A |
| There is one discordant measure | B |
| As I think of homeless souls | A |
| - | |
| And I know that grim old story | B |
| Preached from pulpits is not so | A |
| For no God could sit in glory | B |
| And see sinners writhe below | A |
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| In that great eternal Centre | B |
| Where all human life has birth | D |
| Boundless love and pity enter | B |
| And flow downward to the earth | D |
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| And all souls in sin or sorrow | A |
| Are but passing through the night | E |
| And I know on some to morrow | A |
| God will love them into light | E |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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