Limitations Of Benevolence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEF GHIH JKLK DMNM OPQP RSTU VWXW| 'The beggar boy is none of mine ' | A |
| The reverend doctor strangely said | B |
| 'I do not walk the streets to pour | C |
| Chance benedictions on his head | B |
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| 'And heaven I thank who made me so | D |
| That toying with my own dear child | E |
| I think not on his shivering limbs | F |
| His manners vagabond and wild ' | - |
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| Good friend unsay that graceless word | G |
| I am a mother crowned with joy | H |
| And yet I feel a bosom pang | I |
| To pass the little starveling boy | H |
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| His aching flesh his fevered eyes | J |
| His piteous stomach craving meat | K |
| His features nipt of tenderness | L |
| And most his little frozen feet | K |
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| Oft by my fireside's ruddy glow | D |
| I think how in some noisome den | M |
| Bred up with curses and with blows | N |
| He lives unblest of gods or men | M |
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| I cannot snatch him from his fate | O |
| The tribute of my doubting mind | P |
| Drops torch like in the abyss of ill | Q |
| That skirts the ways of humankind | P |
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| But as my heart's desire would leap | R |
| To help him recognized of none | S |
| I thank the God who left him this | T |
| For many a precious right foregone | U |
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| My mother whom I scarcely knew | V |
| Bequeathed this bond of love to me | W |
| The heart parental thrills for all | X |
| The children of humanity | W |
Julia Ward Howe
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