Worry About Money Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD EE EF BG HFI| Wearing worry about money like a hair shirt | A |
| I lie down in my bed and wrestle with my angel | B |
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| My bank manager could not sanction my continuance for another day | C |
| But life itself wakes me each morning and love | D |
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| Urges me to give although I have no money | E |
| In the bank at this moment and ought properly | E |
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| To cease to exist in a world where poverty | E |
| Is a shameful and ridiculous offence | F |
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| Having no one to advise me I open the Bible | B |
| And shut my eyes and put my finger on a text | G |
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| And read that the widow with the young son | H |
| Must give first to the prophetic genius | F |
| From the little there is in the bin of flour and the cruse of oil | I |
Kathleen Jessie Raine
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