The Giver Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF| To give a thing and take again | A |
| Is counted meanness among men | A |
| To take away what once is given | B |
| Cannot then be the way of heaven | B |
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| But human hearts are crumbly stuff | C |
| And never never love enough | C |
| Therefore God takes and with a smile | D |
| Puts our best things away a while | D |
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| Thereon some weep some rave some scorn | E |
| Some wish they never had been born | E |
| Some humble grow at last and still | F |
| And then God gives them what they will | F |
George Macdonald
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