The Good Shepherd With The Kid Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA BBA CDE FDE| He saves the sheep the goats he doth not save | A |
| So rang Tertullian's sentence on the side | B |
| Of that unpitying Phrygian Sect which cried | B |
| 'Him can no fount of fresh forgiveness lave | A |
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| Who sins once washed by the baptismal wave ' | - |
| So spake the fierce Tertullian But she sighed | B |
| The infant Church of love she felt the tide | B |
| Stream on her from her Lord's yet recent grave | A |
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| And then she smiled and in the Catacombs | C |
| With eye suffused but heart inspired true | D |
| On those walls subterranean where she hid | E |
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| Her head in ignominy death and tombs | F |
| She her good Shepherd's hasty image drew | D |
| And on his shoulders not a lamb a kid | E |
Matthew Arnold
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