Rest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EBEB FGFG HBHB IBJB KBKB LBMB| My feet are wearied and my hands are tired | A |
| My soul oppressed | B |
| And I desire what I have long desired | A |
| Rest only rest | B |
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| 'Tis hard to toil when toil is almost vain | C |
| In barren ways | D |
| 'Tis hard to sow and never garner grain | C |
| In harvest days | D |
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| The burden of my days is hard to bear | E |
| But God knows best | B |
| And I have prayed but vain has been my prayer | E |
| For rest sweet rest | B |
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| 'Tis hard to plant in Spring and never reap | F |
| The Autumn yield | G |
| 'Tis hard to till and 'tis tilled to weep | F |
| O'er fruitless field | G |
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| And so I cry a weak and human cry | H |
| So heart oppressed | B |
| And so I sigh a weak and human sigh | H |
| For rest for rest | B |
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| My way has wound across the desert years | I |
| And cares infest | B |
| My path and through the flowing of hot tears | J |
| I pine for rest | B |
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| 'Twas always so when but a child I laid | K |
| On mother's breast | B |
| My wearied little head e'en then I prayed | K |
| As now for rest | B |
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| And I am restless still 'twill soon be o'er | L |
| For down the West | B |
| Life's sun is setting and I see the shore | M |
| Where I shall rest | B |
Abram Joseph Ryan
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