Giving And Taking Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFG HIIH IHHI JCCJ| Who gives and hides the giving hand | A |
| Nor counts on favor fame or praise | B |
| Shall find his smallest gift outweighs | B |
| The burden of the sea and land | A |
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| Who gives to whom hath naught been given | C |
| His gift in need though small indeed | D |
| As is the grass blade's wind blown seed | D |
| Is large as earth and rich as heaven | C |
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| Forget it not O man to whom | E |
| A gift shall fall while yet on earth | F |
| Yea even to thy seven fold birth | F |
| Recall it in the lives to come | G |
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| Who broods above a wrong in thought | H |
| Sins much but greater sin is his | I |
| Who fed and clothed with kindnesses | I |
| Shall count the holy alms as nought | H |
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| Who dares to curse the hands that bless | I |
| Shall know of sin the deadliest cost | H |
| The patience of the heavens is lost | H |
| Beholding man's unthankfulness | I |
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| For he who breaks all laws may still | J |
| In Sivam's mercy be forgiven | C |
| But none can save in earth or heaven | C |
| The wretch who answers good with ill | J |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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