Unpardoned Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDCE FGHHHCCE IJJJKLDE| Gentle as the air that kisses | A |
| The splendid and ignoble with one breath | B |
| Gentle as obliterating Death | B |
| Though you be gentler yet | C |
| In days when the old old things begin to fret | C |
| The backward looking consciousness | D |
| Will you forget | C |
| Or if remembering will you forgive | E |
| - | |
| But there is one severer | F |
| Stung by your forgivingness so great | G |
| Shall I forgive you then | H |
| Basest of men | H |
| Would rise in bitterness and sting again | H |
| Not if you should forget | C |
| Could I forget | C |
| Or if remembering myself could I forgive | E |
| - | |
| Never And yet such things have been | I |
| And ills as dark forgiven or forgot | J |
| But in those black hours when the heart burns hot | J |
| And there's no nerve that's not | J |
| Quick with the sense of things unheard unseen | K |
| A terrible voice that's mine yet not mine cries | L |
| Can that Eternal Righteousness | D |
| Remembering forgive | E |
John Frederick Freeman
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