Forgiveness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFFEGHGEHH| My 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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