Our Kind Of A Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEEFGHHIIJJKKLM NNOOPPQQRRSTCCUUBBA | |
The kind of a man for you and me | B |
He faces the world unflinchingly | C |
And smites as long as the wrong resists | D |
With a knuckled faith and force like fists | D |
He lives the life he is preaching of | E |
And loves where most is the need of love | E |
His voice is clear to the deaf man's ears | F |
And his face sublime through the blind man's tears | G |
The light shines out where the clouds were dim | H |
And the widow's prayer goes up for him | H |
The latch is clicked at the hovel door | I |
And the sick man sees the sun once more | I |
And out o'er the barren fields he sees | J |
Springing blossoms and waving trees | J |
Feeling as only the dying may | K |
That God's own servant has come that way | K |
Smoothing the path as it still winds on | L |
Through the golden gate where his loved have gone | M |
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The kind of a man for me and you | N |
However little of worth we do | N |
He credits full and abides in trust | O |
That time will teach us how more is just | O |
He walks abroad and he meets all kinds | P |
Of querulous and uneasy minds | P |
And sympathizing he shares the pain | Q |
Of the doubts that rack us heart and brain | Q |
And knowing this as we grasp his hand | R |
We are surely coming to understand | R |
He looks on sin with pitying eyes | S |
E'en as the Lord since Paradise | T |
Else should we read Though our sins should glow | C |
As scarlet they shall be white as snow | C |
And feeling still with a grief half glad | U |
That the bad are as good as the good are bad | U |
He strikes straight out for the Right and he | B |
Is the kind of a man for you and me | B |
James Whitcomb Riley
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