Misunderstood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB BBCC DDBB EEBB FFBB GHBB IIBB CCBB JKBB| The ills of all the human race | A |
| The woes of earth that bring disgrace | A |
| Would banish if we only could | B |
| Escape the fiend Misunderstood | B |
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| When Eve and Adam pure and good | B |
| The law divine misunderstood | B |
| A downward course was then begun | C |
| A race that all the earth must run | C |
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| The thought is sad indeed though true | D |
| That sinners reap in season due | D |
| The fruits of all they sow and should | B |
| For down in hell they're understood | B |
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| The infidels of giant brain | E |
| Would save themselves a deal of pain | E |
| By claiming truth if such they could | B |
| But they alas misunderstood | B |
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| The wars that devastate the land | F |
| The reason men for wrong will stand | F |
| They have somewhere in seeking good | B |
| The law of right misunderstood | B |
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| In harshness do we estimate | G |
| The neighbors oft we underrate | H |
| The scene would change it nature could | B |
| The monster bare Misunderstood | B |
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| The Negro Problem of the times | I |
| Which breeds the most atrocious crimes | I |
| Survives because in crushing good | B |
| The Golden rule's misunderstood | B |
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| The Savior's work on earth was one | C |
| Of building up where sin had run | C |
| He gave to all the highest good | B |
| But passed through life misunderstood | B |
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| We long to rest when time is o'er | J |
| In that beyond for evermore | K |
| The habitation of the good | B |
| Above the fiend Misunderstood | B |
Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer
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