Doubt Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAAA CDDCCC AEEAAA| They bade me cast the thing away | A |
| They pointed to my hands all bleeding | B |
| They listened not to all my pleading | B |
| The thing I meant I could not say | A |
| I knew that I should rue the day | A |
| If once I cast that thing away | A |
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| I grasped it firm and bore the pain | C |
| The thorny husks I stripped and scattered | D |
| If I could reach its heart what mattered | D |
| If other men saw not my gain | C |
| Or even if I should be slain | C |
| I knew the risks I chose the pain | C |
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| O had I cast that thing away | A |
| I had not found what most I cherish | E |
| A faith without which I should perish | E |
| The faith which like a kernel lay | A |
| Hid in the husks which on that day | A |
| My instinct would not throw away | A |
Helen Hunt Jackson
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