E.c.b. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE EGHI JKEK| Before the grass grew over me | A |
| I knew one good man through and through | B |
| And knew a soul and body joined | C |
| Are stronger than the heavens are blue | B |
| - | |
| A wisdom worthy of thy joy | D |
| O great heart read I as I ran | E |
| Now though men smite me on the face | F |
| I cannot curse the face of man | E |
| - | |
| I loved the man I saw yestreen | E |
| Hanged with his babe's blood on his palms | G |
| I loved the man I saw to day | H |
| Who knocked not when he came with alms | I |
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| Hush for thy sake I even faced | J |
| The knowledge that is worse than hell | K |
| And loved the man I saw but now | E |
| Hanging head downwards in the well | K |
G. K. Chesterton
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