Giving And Forgiving Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACAC ADADACAC EDEDECEC AFAFACAC GGGGGCGC| 'Tis not by selfish miser's greed | A |
| The great rewards of love are given | B |
| 'Tis not the cynic's haughty creed | A |
| Which gladly makes this world a heaven | B |
| But tender word and loving deed | A |
| Increase the angel joys of living | C |
| And mortals gain life's grandest meed | A |
| By acts of giving and forgiving | C |
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| Let warriors bold with armies fight | A |
| Their awful battles brave and gory | D |
| To reap the harvest of their might | A |
| And fill a gaping world with glory | D |
| The humble heroes out of sight | A |
| Where hidden tears and woes are striving | C |
| Win victories for truth and right | A |
| By deeds of giving and forgiving | C |
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| Let mighty kings of loyal lands | E |
| Despise the faithful sons of duty | D |
| And with the swords of vandal hands | E |
| Destroy the homes of joy and beauty | D |
| The honest lords of low commands | E |
| Will find a nobler way of thriving | C |
| In lonely vales where sorrow stands | E |
| By sweets of giving and forgiving | C |
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| Let rich men with their heaps of gold | A |
| Be servants of the shining splendor | F |
| And crush the bosom poor and old | A |
| That lives by mercies pure and tender | F |
| But still the soul with saints enrolled | A |
| Will keep its charity surviving | C |
| And have its humble glory told | A |
| In tales of giving and forgiving | C |
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| O helping hands and Christian hearts | G |
| Twin parents of the race's gladness | G |
| God speed the time when your sweet arts | G |
| Shall banish every sign of sadness | G |
| When mournful cries when pain's wild darts | G |
| Shall cease to curse the days of living | C |
| And Heaven's love to man imparts | G |
| The joys of giving and forgiving | C |
Freeman E. Miller
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