Conscience Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEEFFGHGHIIJJIIK KLLMMNNOPPOOQQEERRST UVWW| Conscience is instinct bred in the house | A |
| Feeling and Thinking propagate the sin | B |
| By an unnatural breeding in and in | B |
| I say Turn it out doors | C |
| Into the moors | D |
| I love a life whose plot is simple | E |
| And does not thicken with every pimple | E |
| A soul so sound no sickly conscience binds it | F |
| That makes the universe no worse than 't finds it | F |
| I love an earnest soul | G |
| Whose mighty joy and sorrow | H |
| Are not drowned in a bowl | G |
| And brought to life to morrow | H |
| That lives one tragedy | I |
| And not seventy | I |
| A conscience worth keeping | J |
| Laughing not weeping | J |
| A conscience wise and steady | I |
| And forever ready | I |
| Not changing with events | K |
| Dealing in compliments | K |
| A conscience exercised about | L |
| Large things where one may doubt | L |
| I love a soul not all of wood | M |
| Predestinated to be good | M |
| But true to the backbone | N |
| Unto itself alone | N |
| And false to none | O |
| Born to its own affairs | P |
| Its own joys and own cares | P |
| By whom the work which God begun | O |
| Is finished and not undone | O |
| Taken up where he left off | Q |
| Whether to worship or to scoff | Q |
| If not good why then evil | E |
| If not good god good devil | E |
| Goodness you hypocrite come out of that | R |
| Live your life do your work then take your hat | R |
| I have no patience towards | S |
| Such conscientious cowards | T |
| Give me simple laboring folk | U |
| Who love their work | V |
| Whose virtue is song | W |
| To cheer God along | W |
Henry David Thoreau
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