If This Were Faith Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEF GGHHIIJJKKLLMMA ABCCNNOOPQPRRAA| God if this were enough | A |
| That I see things bare to the buff | A |
| And up to the buttocks in mire | B |
| That I ask nor hope nor hire | C |
| Nut in the husk | D |
| Nor dawn beyond the dusk | D |
| Nor life beyond death | E |
| God if this were faith | F |
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| Having felt thy wind in my face | G |
| Spit sorrow and disgrace | G |
| Having seen thine evil doom | H |
| In Golgotha and Khartoum | H |
| And the brutes the work of thine hands | I |
| Fill with injustice lands | I |
| And stain with blood the sea | J |
| If still in my veins the glee | J |
| Of the black night and the sun | K |
| And the lost battle run | K |
| If an adept | L |
| The iniquitous lists I still accept | L |
| With joy and joy to endure and be withstood | M |
| And still to battle and perish for a dream of good | M |
| God if that were enough | A |
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| If to feel in the ink of the slough | A |
| And the sink of the mire | B |
| Veins of glory and fire | C |
| Run through and transpierce and transpire | C |
| And a secret purpose of glory in every part | N |
| And the answering glory of battle fill my heart | N |
| To thrill with the joy of girded men | O |
| To go on for ever and fail and go on again | O |
| And be mauled to the earth and arise | P |
| And contend for the shade of a word and a thing | Q |
| not seen with the eyes | P |
| With the half of a broken hope for a pillow at night | R |
| That somehow the right is the right | R |
| And the smooth shall bloom from the rough | A |
| Lord if that were enough | A |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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