Anti-desperation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCA ABB DEF DE| Long fed on boundless hopes O race of man | A |
| How angrily thou spurn'st all simpler fare | B |
| Christ some one says was human as we are | C |
| No judge eyes us from heaven our sin to scan | A |
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| We live no more when we have done our span | A |
| 'Well then for Christ ' thou answerest 'who can care | B |
| 'From sin which heaven records not why forbear | B |
| 'Live we like brutes our life without a plan ' | - |
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| So answerest thou but why not rather say | D |
| Hath man no second life Pitch this one high | E |
| 'Sits there no judge in heaven our sin to see | F |
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| 'More strictly then the inward judge obey | D |
| 'Was Christ a man like us Ah let us try | E |
| 'If we then too can be such men as he ' | - |
Matthew Arnold
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