The Gospel Women 08: The Widow With The Two Mites Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ| Here much and little shift and change | A |
| With scale of need and time | B |
| There more and less have meanings strange | A |
| Which the world cannot rime | B |
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| Sickness may be more hale than health | C |
| And service kingdom high | D |
| Yea poverty be bounty's wealth | C |
| To give like God thereby | D |
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| Bring forth your riches let them go | E |
| Nor mourn the lost control | F |
| For if ye hoard them surely so | E |
| Their rust will reach your soul | F |
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| Cast in your coins for God delights | G |
| When from wide hands they fall | H |
| But here is one who brings two mites | G |
| And thus gives more than all | H |
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| I think she did not hear the praise | I |
| Went home content with need | J |
| Walked in her old poor generous ways | I |
| Nor knew her heavenly meed | J |
George Macdonald
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