Religion And Doctrine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABBCCDD EEFFGHH IJFFGGKK LLMMNO HHHH PPBBBBQQFFAA| He stood before the Sanhedrim | A |
| The scowling rabbis gazed at him | A |
| He recked not of their praise or blame | A |
| There was no fear there was no shame | A |
| For one upon whose dazzled eyes | B |
| The whole world poured its vast surprise | B |
| The open heaven was far too near | C |
| His first day's light too sweet and clear | C |
| To let him waste his new gained ken | D |
| On the hate clouded face of men | D |
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| But still they questioned Who art thou | E |
| What hast thou been What art thou now | E |
| Thou art not he who yesterday | F |
| Sat here and begged beside the way | F |
| For he was blind | G |
| And I am he | H |
| For I was blind but now I see | H |
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| He told the story o'er and o'er | I |
| It was his full heart's only lore | J |
| A prophet on the Sabbath day | F |
| Had touched his sightless eyes with clay | F |
| And made him see who had been blind | G |
| Their words passed by him like the wind | G |
| Which raves and howls but cannot shock | K |
| The hundred fathom rooted rock | K |
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| Their threats and fury all went wide | L |
| They could not touch his Hebrew pride | L |
| Their sneers at Jesus and His band | M |
| Nameless and homeless in the land | M |
| Their boasts of Moses and his Lord | N |
| All could not change him by one word | O |
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| I know not what this man may be | H |
| Sinner or saint but as for me | H |
| One thing I know that I am he | H |
| Who once was blind and now I see | H |
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| They were all doctors of renown | P |
| The great men of a famous town | P |
| With deep brows wrinkled broad and wise | B |
| Beneath their wide phylacteries | B |
| The wisdom of the East was theirs | B |
| And honor crowned their silver hairs | B |
| The man they jeered and laughed to scorn | Q |
| Was unlearned poor and humbly born | Q |
| But he knew better far than they | F |
| What came to him that Sabbath day | F |
| And what the Christ had done for him | A |
| He knew and not the Sanhedrim | A |
John Hay
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