The Deadliest Sin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCADEEDFFG GDHHIIJKKJLMLNOMONPQ RSTTTTDUDVVWWXXYY TT| There are not many sins when once we sift them | A |
| In actions of evolving human souls | B |
| Striving to reach high goals | B |
| And falling backward into dust and mire | C |
| Some element we find that seems to lift them | A |
| Above our condemnation even higher | D |
| Into the realm of pity and compassion | E |
| So beauteous a thing as love itself can fashion | E |
| A chain of sins descending to desire | D |
| It wanders into dangerous paths and leads | F |
| To most unholy deeds | F |
| And light struck walks in madness toward the night | G |
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| Wrong oft times is an over ripened right | G |
| A rank weed grown from some neglected flower | D |
| The lightning uncontrolled flames meant for joy | H |
| And beauty used to ravage and destroy | H |
| For sins like these repentance can atone | I |
| There is one sin alone | I |
| Which seems all unforgivable because | J |
| It springs from no temptation and no need | K |
| And no desire save to make sweet faith bleed | K |
| And to defame God's laws | J |
| Oh viler than the murderer or the thief | L |
| Who slays the body and who robs the purse | M |
| Is he who strives to kill the mind's belief | L |
| And rob it of its hope | N |
| Of life beyond this little pain filled span | O |
| God has no curse | M |
| Quite dark enough to punish such a man | O |
| Who seeing how souls grope | N |
| And suffer in this world of mighty losses | P |
| And how hearts stagger on beneath life's crosses | Q |
| Yet strives to rob them of their staff of faith | R |
| And make them think dark death | S |
| Ends all existence think the worshipped child | T |
| Cold in its mother's arms is but a clod | T |
| And has not gone to God | T |
| That souls united by love undefiled | T |
| And holy can by death be torn asunder | D |
| To meet no more | U |
| It must be true that under | D |
| This earth of ours there lies a Purgatory | V |
| For those who seek to rob grief of the glory | V |
| That shines through hope of life immortal In | W |
| Sin's lexicon this is the vilest sin | W |
| Needless and cruel ugly gaunt and mean | X |
| Without one poor excuse on which to lean | X |
| A vandal sin that with no hope of gain | Y |
| Finds pleasure only in another's pain | Y |
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| God though all other sins on earth persist | T |
| Strike dumb the blatant loud mouthed atheist | T |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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