The Better Part Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADBBDEFGEFD| 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 |
| We live no more when we have done our span ' | D |
| '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 ' | D |
| So answerest thou but why not rather say | E |
| 'Hath man no second life Pitch this one high | F |
| Sits there no judge in Heaven our sin to see | G |
| More strictly then the inward judge obey | E |
| Was Christ a man like us Ah let us try | F |
| If we then too can be such men as he ' | D |
Matthew Arnold
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