Exit God Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG HIHIJKJK LMLM| Of old our father's God was real | A |
| Something they almost saw | B |
| Which kept them to a stern ideal | A |
| And scourged them into awe | C |
| - | |
| They walked the narrow path of right | D |
| Most vigilantly well | E |
| Because they feared eternal night | D |
| And boiling depths of Hell | E |
| - | |
| Now Hell has wholly boiled away | F |
| And God become a shade | G |
| There is no place for him to stay | F |
| In all the world He made | G |
| - | |
| The followers of William James | H |
| Still let the Lord exist | I |
| And call Him by imposing names | H |
| A venerable list | I |
| But nerve and muscle only count | J |
| Gray matter of the brain | K |
| And an astonishing amount | J |
| Of inconvenient pain | K |
| - | |
| I sometimes wish that God were back | L |
| In this dark world and wide | M |
| For though sonic virtues He might lack | L |
| He had his pleasant side | M |
Gamaliel Bradford
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