Forgiveness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFFEGHGEHHMy heart was heavy for its trust had been | A |
Abused its kindness answered with foul wrong | B |
So turning gloomily from my fellow men | C |
One summer Sabbath day I strolled among | D |
The green mounds of the village burial place | E |
Where pondering how all human love and hate | F |
Find one sad level and how soon or late | F |
Wronged and wrongdoer each with meekened face | E |
And cold hands folded over a still heart | G |
Pass the green threshold of our common grave | H |
Whither all footsteps tend whence none depart | G |
Awed for myself and pitying my race | E |
Our common sorrow like a mighty wave | H |
Swept all my pride away and trembling I forgave | H |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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