Divine Device Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGAGA FGFGAHAHWould it be loss or gain | A |
To hapless human kind | B |
If we could feel no pain | A |
Of body or of mind | B |
Would it be for our good | C |
If we were calloused so | D |
And God in mercy should | C |
End all our woe | D |
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I wonder and I doubt | E |
It is my bright belief | F |
We should be poor without | E |
The gift of grief | F |
For suffering may be | G |
A blessing not a bane | A |
And though we sorrow we | G |
Should praise for Pain | A |
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Aye it's my brave belief | F |
That grateful we should be | G |
Since in the heart of grief | F |
Is love and sympathy | G |
We do not weep in vain | A |
So let us kiss the rod | H |
And see in purging Pain | A |
The Grace of God | H |
Robert Service
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