A Prayer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN OPQPRSRT| Spirit and Breath of Life whate'er Thy name | A |
| Bear with Thy creature Man | B |
| That makes his dwelling place a blot of shame | A |
| Upon the Ordered Plan | B |
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| Not Thy hand O Divine Designer hurled | C |
| Athwart the starlit skies | D |
| One blood stained greed diseased hate eaten world | C |
| To shock celestial eyes | D |
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| Not Thy default O Beautiful this crust | E |
| Of fratricidal crime | F |
| These maggot breeds of hunger and of lust | E |
| That Thy fair work begrime | F |
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| But ours who mock Thee from the highest place | G |
| And in the light of day | H |
| Who claim to lead an upward struggling race | G |
| And will not seek the way | H |
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| Guards of the human birthright at Thy call | I |
| A city sacked and burned | J |
| Guards of the house that is the home of all | I |
| But whence the weak are spurned | J |
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| Brothers to whom the outcast brothers cry | K |
| As with a voice unknown | L |
| Stewards of Nature's bounty that deny | K |
| The lawful heirs their own | L |
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| Thou that hast made us men and earth so fair | M |
| To be so vilely used | N |
| Give space for late repentance and repair | M |
| Of sacred trust abused | N |
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| Give time Eternal that we stanch these tears | O |
| Give time to heal this sore | P |
| That our brief speck amid the shining spheres | Q |
| Disgrace its birth no more | P |
| But sail ethereal seas an orb of light | R |
| To bear Thy purpose on | S |
| Until it fades into the cosmic night | R |
| Where the dead worlds have gone | T |
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