My Brother's Keeper? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBDEDDD BFGHHHIJJJ KLMMMNMO PJJPBBBQRQST BRRUURR| A WARNING | A |
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| Am I my brother's keeper | B |
| Yes of a truth | C |
| Thine asking is thine answer | B |
| That self condemning cry of Cain | D |
| Has been the plea of every selfish soul since then | E |
| Which hath its brother slain | D |
| God's word is plain | D |
| And doth thy shrinking soul arraign | D |
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| Thy brother's keeper | B |
| Yea of a truth thou art | F |
| For if not who | G |
| Are ye not both both thou and he | H |
| Of God's great family | H |
| How rid thee of thy soul's responsibility | H |
| For every ill in all the world | I |
| Each soul is sponsor and account must bear | J |
| And He and he thy brother of despair | J |
| Claim of thy overmuch their share | J |
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| Thou hast had good and he the strangled days | K |
| But now the old things pass | L |
| No longer of thy grace | M |
| Is he content to live in evil case | M |
| For the anointing of thy shining face | M |
| The old things pass Beware lest ye pass with them | N |
| And your place | M |
| Become an emptiness | O |
| - | |
| Beware Lest when the Have nots claim | P |
| From those who have their rightful share | J |
| Thy borders be swept bare | J |
| As by the final flame | P |
| Better to share before than after | B |
| After For thee may be no after | B |
| Only the howl of mocking laughter | B |
| At thy belated care Make no mistake | Q |
| After will be too late | R |
| When once the Have nots claim they take | Q |
| After When that full claim is made | S |
| You and your golden gods may all lie dead | T |
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| Set now your house in order | B |
| Ere it be too late | R |
| For once the storm of hate | R |
| Be loosed no man shall stay it till | U |
| Its thirst has slaked its fill | U |
| And you poor victims of this last too late | R |
| Shall in the shadows mourn your lost estate | R |
William Arthur Dunkerley (john Oxenham)
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