The Doom Of Cain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCDEFB BGHGHIIB BJKJKLLB MAGAGNNO PQCQCRRP STBTBHHS UVBVBWXU| The Lord Said What hast thou done | A |
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| Oh erring Cain | B |
| What hast thou done Upon the blighted earth | C |
| I hear a melancholy wail resounding | D |
| Among the blades of grass where flowers have birth | C |
| I hear a new born tone mournfully sounding | D |
| It is thy brother's blood | E |
| Crying aloud to God | F |
| In helpless pain | B |
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| Unhappy Cain | B |
| Thou hast so loved to wreathe the clinging vine | G |
| And welcomed with pure joy the delicate fruit | H |
| Till thou hast felt a kindred feeling twine | G |
| Around thy heart grown with each fibrous root | H |
| Of tree or moss or flower | I |
| Growing in field or bower | I |
| Or ripening grain | B |
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| But henceforth Cain | B |
| When the bright gleaming of the rosy morn | J |
| Proclaims another glorious summer day | K |
| Thou may'st walk forth to greet the earth newborn | J |
| And pluck the blushing roses on thy way | K |
| They at thy touch shall blight | L |
| Stricken with some strange might | L |
| Some dire pain | B |
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| In time to come | M |
| When thy fair child for thou shalt have a son | A |
| Shall lay his little soft warm hands in thine | G |
| And say My father growing neath the sun | A |
| Are lovely flowers trees and moss and vine | G |
| Here is rich soil and room | N |
| For me make bowers bloom | N |
| Around our home | O |
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| Thy heart will shrink | P |
| And thou wilt hear the voice the Lord has heard | Q |
| The voice of brother's blood speaking from earth | C |
| And each pulse of thy sad soul will be stirred | Q |
| As he to whom the girl thou love'st gave birth | C |
| Brings back with fearful truth | R |
| The playmate of thy youth | R |
| From the grave's brink | P |
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| For on no shore | S |
| Shall fair earth yield unto thy stalwart arms | T |
| No thou may'st dig and prune and plant in vain | B |
| And noxious worms and things of poisonous harms | T |
| Shall not be banished at the will of Cane | B |
| Thou'lt set seed bearing root | H |
| Thou'lt plant life giving fruit | H |
| No more no more | S |
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| Depart Depart | U |
| Ah no not greater than the soul can bear | V |
| Did'st thou not always find whatever grain | B |
| Thou cast the same grew upward full and fair | V |
| Thou would'st not look upon the pure lamb slain | B |
| To faith true sacrifice | W |
| Thou would'st not turn thine eyes | X |
| Go till thine heart | U |
Harriet Annie Wilkins
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