The Boy Out Of Church Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEAE FGHG HIFI JEAE KGHG| As Jesus and his followers | A |
| Upon a Sabbath morn | B |
| Were walking by a wheat field | C |
| They plucked the ears of corn | B |
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| They plucked it they rubbed it | D |
| They blew the husks away | E |
| Which grieved the pious pharisees | A |
| Upon the Sabbath day | E |
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| And Jesus said A riddle | F |
| Answer if you can | G |
| Was man made for the Sabbath | H |
| Or Sabbath made for man | G |
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| I do not love the Sabbath | H |
| The soapsuds and the starch | I |
| The troops of solemn people | F |
| Who to Salvation march | I |
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| I take my book I take my stick | J |
| On the Sabbath day | E |
| In woody nooks and valleys | A |
| I hide myself away | E |
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| To ponder there in quiet | K |
| God's Universal Plan | G |
| Resolved that church and Sabbath | H |
| Were never made for man | G |
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