The Under-dogs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHIH JKJKLMLM MMMMNMNM| What have we done Oh Lord that we | A |
| Are evil starred | B |
| How have we erred and sinned to be | A |
| So scourged and scarred | B |
| Lash us Oh Lord with scorpion whips | C |
| We can but run | D |
| But harken to our piteous lips | C |
| What have we done | D |
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| How have we sinned to rouse your wrath | E |
| To earn your scorn | F |
| Stony and steep has been our path | E |
| Since we were born | F |
| Oh for a sign a hope a word | G |
| A heaven glance | H |
| Why is your hand against us Lord | I |
| Give us a chance | H |
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| What shall we do Oh God to gain | J |
| Your mercy seat | K |
| Shall we live out our lives in pain | J |
| And dark defeat | K |
| Shall we in servitude bow low | L |
| Unto the end | M |
| How we would hope could we but know | L |
| You are our friend | M |
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| We are the disinherited | M |
| The doomed the lost | M |
| For breath with dust and ashes fed | M |
| We pay the cost | M |
| Dumb mouths Yet though we bleed with prayer | N |
| We kiss the sword | M |
| Aye even dying we forbear | N |
| To curse Thee Lord | M |
Robert Service
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