The Creed To Be Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIHI JKJK LMLM JNJN OPOP| Our thoughts are molding unmade spheres | A |
| And like a blessing or a curse | B |
| They thunder down the formless years | A |
| And ring throughout the universe | B |
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| We build our futures by the shape | C |
| Of our desires and not by acts | D |
| There is no pathway of escape | C |
| No priest made creeds can alter facts | D |
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| Salvation is not begged or bought | E |
| Too long this selfish hope sufficed | F |
| Too long man reeked with lawless thought | G |
| And leaned upon a tortured Christ | F |
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| Like shriveled leaves these worn out creeds | H |
| Are dropping from Religion s tree | I |
| The world begins to know its needs | H |
| And souls are crying to be free | I |
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| Free from the load of fear and grief | J |
| Man fashioned in an ignorant age | K |
| Free from the ache of unbelief | J |
| He fled to in rebellious rage | K |
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| No church can bind him to the things | L |
| That fed the first crude souls evolved | M |
| For mounting up on daring wings | L |
| He questions mysteries all unsolved | M |
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| Above the chant of priests above | J |
| The blatant voice of braying doubt | N |
| He hears the still small voice of Love | J |
| Which sends its simple message out | N |
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| And clearer sweeter day by day | O |
| Its mandate echoes from the skies | P |
| Go roll the stone of self away | O |
| And let the Christ within thee rise | P |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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