This Tattered Catechism Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACBBADEDEFE| THIS tattered catechism weaves a spell | A |
| Invoking from the Long Ago a child | B |
| Who deemed her fledgling soul so sin defiled | B |
| She practised with a candle flame at hell | A |
| Burning small fingers that would still rebel | C |
| And flinch from fire Forsooth not all beguiled | B |
| By hymn and sermon when her mother smiled | B |
| That smile was fashioning an infidel | A |
| 'If I'm in hell ' the baby logic ran | D |
| 'Mother will hear me cry and come for me | E |
| If God says no I don't believe He can | D |
| Say no to mother ' Then at that dear knee | E |
| She knelt demure a little Puritan | F |
| Whose faith in love had wrecked theology | E |
Katharine Lee Bates
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