On Another's Sorrow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DDEF GHII JJDD KLHD MMII JJAB NNDH OOPQ| Can I see another's woe | A |
| And not be in sorrow too | B |
| Can I see another's grief | C |
| And not seek for kind relief | C |
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| Can I see a falling tear | D |
| And not feel my sorrow's share | D |
| Can a father see his child | E |
| Weep nor be with sorrow filled | F |
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| Can a mother sit and hear | G |
| An infant groan an infant fear | H |
| No no never can it be | I |
| Never never can it be | I |
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| And can He who smiles on all | J |
| Hear the wren with sorrows small | J |
| Hear the small bird's grief and care | D |
| Hear the woes that infants bear | D |
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| And not sit beside the next | K |
| Pouring pity in their breast | L |
| And not sit the cradle near | H |
| Weeping tear on infant's tear | D |
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| And not sit both night and day | M |
| Wiping all our tears away | M |
| Oh no never can it be | I |
| Never never can it be | I |
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| He doth give his joy to all | J |
| He becomes an infant small | J |
| He becomes a man of woe | A |
| He doth feel the sorrow too | B |
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| Think not thou canst sigh a sigh | N |
| And thy Maker is not by | N |
| Think not thou canst weep a tear | D |
| And thy Maker is not year | H |
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| Oh He gives to us his joy | O |
| That our grief He may destroy | O |
| Till our grief is fled an gone | P |
| He doth sit by us and moan | Q |
William Blake
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