Not Understood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABC DEDEC FGFGC FHFHC IJIJC KLKLC AMAMC| Not understood we move along asunder | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Our paths grow wider as the seasons creep | B |
| Along the years we marvel and we wonder | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Why life is life and then we fall asleep | B |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Not understood | C |
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| Not understood we gather false impressions | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And hug them closer as the years go by | E |
| Till virtues often seem to us transgressions | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And thus men rise and fall and live and die | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Not understood | C |
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| Not understood Poor souls with stunted vision | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Oft measure giants with their narrow gauge | G |
| The poisoned shafts of falsehood and derision | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Are oft impelled 'gainst those who mould the age | G |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Not understood | C |
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| Not understood The secret springs of action | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Which lie beneath the surface and the show | H |
| Are disregarded with self satisfaction | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp We judge our neighbours and they often go | H |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Not understood | C |
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| Not understood How trifles often change us | I |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The thoughtless sentence and the fancied slight | J |
| Destroy long years of friendship and estrange us | I |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And on our souls there falls a freezing blight | J |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Not understood | C |
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| Not understood How many breasts are aching | K |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp For lack of sympathy Ah day by day | L |
| How many cheerless lonely hearts are breaking | K |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp How many noble spirits pass away | L |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Not understood | C |
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| O God that men would see a little clearer | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Or judge less harshly where they cannot see | M |
| O God that men would draw a little nearer | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp To one another they'd be nearer Thee | M |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And understood | C |
James Brunton Stephens
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