The World Is Full Of Kindness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD ABABEEEE ABABFGHG ABABAIAI| The World is full of kindness | A |
| And not the poor alone | B |
| We Christians in our blindness | A |
| Bow down to hearts of stone | B |
| The clever bitter cynic | C |
| Whose poisoned soul is dead | D |
| And like the rotten clinic | C |
| Raves helpless on his bed | D |
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| The world is full of kindness | A |
| But not the White alone | B |
| The heathen in his blindness | A |
| Bows down to wood and stone | B |
| But all men are his brothers | E |
| In spite of all the Powers | E |
| And the things he does for others | E |
| Shew whiter souls than ours | E |
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| The world is full of kindness | A |
| But not the Lean alone | B |
| The Fat man in his blindness | A |
| Bows down and not to stone | B |
| But when a friend s in trouble | F |
| And an honest friend at that | G |
| Then I d turn to the Fat man | H |
| In spite of all his fat | G |
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| The world is full of kindness | A |
| If it is let alone | B |
| And men s hearts in their blindness | A |
| Are neither ice nor stone | B |
| In spite of all pretences | A |
| We get it from Above | I |
| In spite of all defences | A |
| Red blood kind hearts and love | I |
Henry Lawson
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