Zacchaeus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHIH JKJK LMLN OPOP| To whom the heavy burden clings | A |
| It yet may serve him like a staff | B |
| One day the cross will break in wings | A |
| The sinner laugh a holy laugh | B |
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| The dwarfed Zacchaeus climbed a tree | C |
| His humble stature set him high | D |
| The Lord the little man did see | C |
| Who sought the great man passing by | D |
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| Up to the tree he came and stopped | E |
| To day he said with thee I bide | F |
| A spirit shaken fruit he dropped | E |
| Ripe for the Master at his side | F |
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| Sure never host with gladder look | G |
| A welcome guest home with him bore | H |
| Then rose the Satan of rebuke | I |
| And loudly spake beside the door | H |
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| This is no place for holy feet | J |
| Sinners should house and eat alone | K |
| This man sits in the stranger's seat | J |
| And grinds the faces of his own | K |
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| Outspoke the man in Truth's own might | L |
| Lord half my goods I give the poor | M |
| If one I've taken more than right | L |
| With four I make atonement sure | N |
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| Salvation here is entered in | O |
| This man indeed is Abraham's son | P |
| Said he who came the lost to win | O |
| And saved the lost whom he had won | P |
George Macdonald
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