The Poor Can Feed The Birds Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA CDC EFE GHG IJI KLK MNM EFE AFA IFI| Ragged unheeded stooping meanly shod | A |
| The poor pass to the pond not far away | B |
| The spires go up to God | A |
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| Shyly they come from the unpainted lane | C |
| Coats have they made of old unhappiness | D |
| That keeps in every pain | C |
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| The rich have fear perchance their God is dim | E |
| Tis with the hope of stored up happiness | F |
| They build the spires to Him | E |
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| The rich go out in clattering pomp and dare | G |
| In the most holy places to insult | H |
| The deep Benevolence there | G |
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| But tis the poor who make the loving words | I |
| Slowly they stoop it is a Sacrament | J |
| The poor can feed the birds | I |
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| Old it is old this scattering of the bread | K |
| Deep as forgiveness or the tears that go | L |
| Out somewhere to the dead | K |
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| The feast of love the love that is the cure | M |
| For all indignities it reigns it calls | N |
| It chains us to the pure | M |
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| Seldom they speak of God He is too dim | E |
| So without thought of after happiness | F |
| They feed the birds for Him | E |
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| The rich men walk not here on the green sod | A |
| But they have builded towers the timorous | F |
| That still go up to God | A |
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| Still will the poor go out with loving words | I |
| In the long need the need for happiness | F |
| The poor can feed the birds | I |
John Shaw Neilson
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