What They Saw Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCDEFAAAGHI AA JKLM NNAA AA BBAA AAHI| Sad man Sad man tell me pray | A |
| What did you see to day | A |
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| I saw the unloved and unhappy old waiting for slow delinquent death to come | B |
| Pale little children toiling for the rich in rooms where sunlight is ashamed to go | C |
| The awful alms house where the living dead rot slowly in their hideous open graves | D |
| And there were shameful things | E |
| Soldiers and forts and industries of death and devil ships and loud winged devil birds | F |
| All bent on slaughter and destruction These and yet more shameful things mine eyes beheld | A |
| Old men upon lascivious conquest bent and young men living with no thought of God | A |
| And half clothed women puffing at a weed aping the vices of the underworld | A |
| Engrossed in shallow pleasures and intent on being barren wives | G |
| These things I saw | H |
| How God must loathe His earth | I |
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| Glad man Glad man tell me pray | A |
| What did you see to day | A |
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| I saw an aged couple in whose eyes | J |
| Shone that deep light of mingled love and faith | K |
| Which makes the earth one room of Paradise | L |
| And leaves no sting in death | M |
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| I saw fair regiments of children pour | N |
| Rank after rank out of the schoolroom door | N |
| By Progress mobilised They seemed to say | A |
| 'Let ignorance make way | A |
| We are the heralds of a better day ' | - |
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| I saw the college and the church that stood | A |
| For all things sane and good | A |
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| I saw God's helpers in the shop and slum | B |
| Blazing a path for health and hope to come | B |
| And men and women of large soul and mind | A |
| Absorbed in toil for bettering their kind | A |
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| Then too I saw life's sweetest sight and best | A |
| Pure mothers with dear babies at the breast | A |
| These things I saw | H |
| How God must love His earth | I |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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