Shrift Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBA CDECFE| I am not true but you would pardon this | A |
| If you could see the tortured spirit take | B |
| Its place beside you in the dark and break | B |
| Your daily food of love and kindliness | A |
| You'd guess the bitter thing that treachery is | A |
| Furtive and on its guard asleep awake | B |
| Fearing to sin yet fearing to forsake | B |
| And daily giving Christ the Judas kiss | A |
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| But piteous amends I make each day | C |
| To recompense the evil with the good | D |
| With double pang I play the double part | E |
| Of all you trust and all that I betray | C |
| What long atonement makes my penitent blood | F |
| To what sad tryst goes my unfaithful heart | E |
Muriel Stuart
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