The Unpardonable Sin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH AJKJ| This is the sin against the Holy Ghost | A |
| To speak of bloody power as right divine | B |
| And call on God to guard each vile chief's house | C |
| And for such chiefs turn men to wolves and swine | B |
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| To go forth killing in White Mercy's name | D |
| Making the trenches stink with spattered brains | E |
| Tearing the nerves and arteries apart | F |
| Sowing with flesh the unreaped golden plains | E |
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| In any Church's name to sack fair towns | G |
| And turn each home into a screaming sty | H |
| To make the little children fugitive | I |
| And have their mothers for a quick death cry | H |
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| This is the sin against the Holy Ghost | A |
| This is the sin no purging can atone | J |
| To send forth rapine in the name of Christ | K |
| To set the face and make the heart a stone | J |
Vachel Lindsay
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