Worship Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC DD EE FF GG HH GG GG I| I know a quite religious man | A |
| Who utters praises when he can | A |
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| Now I find God in bard and book | B |
| In school and temple bird and brook | B |
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| But he says God is sweetest of all | C |
| Discovered in a drinking hall | C |
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| For God requires no costly wine | D |
| But comes on the foam of a crockery stein | D |
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| And when that foam is on the lips | E |
| Begin then God's good fellowships | E |
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| Cathedrals synagogues and kirks | F |
| May go to the devil and all their works | F |
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| And as for Christian charity | G |
| It's made out of hilarity | G |
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| He gives the beggar all his dimes | H |
| Forgives his brother seven times | H |
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| 'I love the rain ' says thirsty clod | G |
| So this religious man of God | G |
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| For God has come and is it odd | G |
| He praises all the works of God | G |
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| 'For God has come and there's no sorrow ' | - |
| He sings all night will he sing to morrow | I |
John Crowe Ransom
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