A Suffering God Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKFKF| Man is like God in miniature | A |
| When he is at his best | B |
| His motives and impulses pure | A |
| His heart and will at rest | B |
| No conflict in himself is felt | C |
| His light no earthly beam | D |
| While love encircles like a belt | C |
| And conscience is supreme | D |
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| As thus endowed a creature may | E |
| The keenest sufferings feel | F |
| Not such as rack the frame of clay | E |
| Which art of man may heal | F |
| But pain untold at others' woes | G |
| And deadly blight of sin | H |
| Which right and virtue overthrows | G |
| And blackens all within | H |
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| And may not God have suffered much | I |
| Ere reached the gory cross | J |
| Did not our woe the God heart touch | I |
| Did He not feel our loss | J |
| The Man of Sorrows we adore | K |
| And own His sufferings real | F |
| But suffered He as God before | K |
| For God can sorrow feel | F |
Joseph Horatio Chant
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