Poison-seeds Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBACAA AADDEDFD GG| Is there in you or me | A |
| Seed of that poison tree | A |
| Which in its bitter fruiting bore | B |
| Such vintage sore | B |
| Of red calamity | A |
| Black wine of horror and of Death | C |
| And soul catastrophe | A |
| Search well and see | A |
| - | |
| Yea search and see | A |
| And if there be | A |
| Tear up its roots with zealous care | D |
| With deep soul probing and with prayer | D |
| Lest in the coming years | E |
| Again it bear | D |
| This same dread fruit of blood and tears | F |
| And ruth beyond compare | D |
| - | |
| Each soul that strips it of one evil thing | G |
| Lifts all the world towards God's good purposing | G |
William Arthur Dunkerley (john Oxenham)
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