Peace And Pain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFEGEG ACACHIHI| THE day and night are symbols of creation | A |
| And each has part in all that God has made | B |
| There is no ill without its compensation | A |
| And life and death are only light and shade | B |
| There never beat a heart so base and sordid | C |
| But felt at times a sympathetic glow | D |
| There never lived a virtue unrewarded | C |
| Nor died a vice without its meed of woe | D |
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| In this brief life despair should never reach us | E |
| The sea looks wide because the shores are dim | F |
| The star that led the Magi still can teach us | E |
| The way to go if we but look to Him | F |
| And as we wade the darkness closing o'er us | E |
| The hungry waters surging to the chin | G |
| Our deeds will rise like stepping stones before us | E |
| The good and bad for we may use the sin | G |
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| A sin of youth atoned for and forgiven | A |
| Takes on a virtue if we choose to find | C |
| When clouds across our onward path are driven | A |
| We still may steer by its pale light behind | C |
| A sin forgotten is in part to pay for | H |
| A sin remembered is a constant gain | I |
| Sorrow next joy is what we ought to pray for | H |
| As next to peace we profit most from pain | I |
John Boyle O'reilly
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