The Philanthropist Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDEEFFGGHIJJK EEL| With apologies to a Beautiful Poem | A |
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| ABOU BEN ADHEM may his tribe decrease | B |
| By cautious birth control and die in peace | B |
| Mellow with learning lightly took the word | C |
| That marked him not with them that love the Lord | D |
| And told the angel of the book and pen | E |
| 'Write me as one that loves his fellow men | E |
| For them alone I labour to reclaim | F |
| The ragged roaming Bedouin and to tame | F |
| To ordered service to uproot their vine | G |
| Who mock the Prophet being mad with wine | G |
| Let daylight through their tents and through their lives | H |
| Number their camels even count their wives | I |
| Plot out the desert into streets and squares | J |
| And count it a more fruitful work than theirs | J |
| Who lift a vain and visionary love | K |
| To your vague Allah in the skies above ' | - |
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| Gently replied the angel of the pen | E |
| 'Labour in peace and love your fellow men | E |
| And love not God since men alone are dear | L |
| Only fear God for you have Cause to fear ' | - |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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