Thoughts On The Commandments Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGF HIJIKFJF LFAFMDND OJPJQFJF| Love your neighbor as yourself | A |
| So the parson preaches | B |
| That's one half the Decalogue | C |
| So the Prayer book teaches | D |
| Half my duty I can do | E |
| With but little labor | F |
| For with all my heart and soul | G |
| I do love my neighbor | F |
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| Mighty little credit that | H |
| To my self denial | I |
| Not to love her though might be | J |
| Something of a trial | I |
| Why the rosy light that peeps | K |
| Through the glass above her | F |
| Lingers round her lips you see | J |
| E'en the sunbeams love her | F |
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| So to make my merit more | L |
| I'll go beyond the letter | F |
| Love my neighbor as myself | A |
| Yes and ten times better | F |
| For she's sweeter than the breath | M |
| Of the Spring that passes | D |
| Through the fragrant budding woods | N |
| O'er the meadow grasses | D |
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| And I've preached the word I know | O |
| For it was my duty | J |
| To convert the stubborn heart | P |
| Of the little beauty | J |
| Once again success has crowned | Q |
| Missionary labor | F |
| For her sweet eyes own that she | J |
| Also loves her neighbor | F |
George Augustus Baker, Jr.
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