The Merciful Hand Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDED FGHG IJKJ| Written to Miss Alice L F Fitzgerald Edith Cavell | A |
| memorial nurse going to the front | B |
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| Your fine white hand is Heaven's gift | C |
| To cure the wide world stricken sore | D |
| Bleeding at the breast and head | E |
| Tearing at its wounds once more | D |
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| Your white hand is a prophecy | F |
| A living hope that Christ shall come | G |
| And make the nations merciful | H |
| Hating the bayonet and drum | G |
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| Each desperate burning brain you soothe | I |
| Or ghastly broken frame you bind | J |
| Brings one day nearer our bright goal | K |
| The love alliance of mankind | J |
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