The Thief On The Cross Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABBBCCC DDDEEE| Three crosses rose on Calvary against the iron sky | A |
| Each with its living burden each with its human cry | A |
| And all the ages watched there and there were you and I | A |
| One bore the God incarnate reviled by man's disdain | B |
| Who through the woe he suffered for our eternal gain | B |
| With joy of infinite loving assuaged his infinite pain | B |
| On one the thief repentant conquered his cruel doom | C |
| Who called at last on Christ and saw his glory through the gloom | C |
| For him after the torment souls of the blest made room | C |
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| And one the unrepentant bore who his harsh fate defied | D |
| To him the child of darkness all mercy was denied | D |
| Nailed by his brothers on the cross he cursed his God and died | D |
| Ah Christ who met in Paradise him who had eyes to see | E |
| Didst thou not greet the other in hell's black agony | E |
| And if he knew thy face Lord what did he say to thee | E |
Harriet Monroe
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