Love One Another. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEFF GGGGHH I BJJGGJJ JJJJJJ K HHJJJJKKLet's love one another it's better bi far | A |
Mak peace wi yor Brother it's better nor war | B |
Life's rooad's rough enuff let's mak it mooar smooth | C |
Let's sprinkle awr pathway wi kindness an love | D |
Ther's hearts at are heavy and een at are dim | E |
Ther's deep cups o' sorrow at's full up to th' brim | E |
Ther's want an misfortun ther's crime an ther's sin | F |
Let's feight 'em wi Love for Love's sarten to win | F |
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Give yor hand a kind hand to yor brother i' need | G |
Dooant question his conduct or ax him his creed | G |
Nor despise him becoss yo may think he's nooan reight | G |
For maybe some daat whether yo're walkin straight | G |
Dooant set up as judge it's a dangerous plan | H |
Luk ovver his failins he's nobbut a man | H |
Suppooas at he's one at yo'd call 'a hard case ' | - |
What might yo ha been if yo'd been in his place | I |
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Fowk praich abaat 'Charity ' 'pity the poor ' | - |
But turn away th' beggar at comes to ther door | B |
Indiscriminate Charity's hurtful they say | J |
We hav'nt got riches to throw em away | J |
Noa but if that Grand Book th' Grandest Book ivver writ | G |
An if ther's a true Book aw think at that's it | G |
Says What yo have done to th' leeast one o' theas | J |
Yo did unto Me Reckon that if yo pleeas | J |
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Awm nooan findin fault yet aw cant help but see | J |
Ha some roll i' wealth wol ther's some starvin dee | J |
They grooan it's a pity Poverty is a curse | J |
But they button ther pockets an shut up ther purse | J |
Ther's few fowk soa poor but they could if they wod | J |
Do summat for mankind Do summat for God | J |
It wor Jesus commanded 'To love one another ' | - |
Ther's no man soa lost but can claim thee as Brother | K |
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Then let us each one do what little we can | H |
To help on to comfort a less lucky man | H |
Remember some day it may fall to thy lot | J |
To feel poverty's grip spite o' all at tha's got | J |
But dooant help another i' hooaps at some day | J |
Tha'll get it all back Nay a thaasand times Nay | J |
Be generous an just and wi th' futer ne'er bother | K |
Tha'll nivver regret bein a friend to thi Brother | K |
John Hartley
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