A Prayer In Time Of War Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM| The war will change many things in art and life and among them it is to be hoped many of our own ideas as to what is and what is not intellectual | A |
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| Thou whose deep ways are in the sea | B |
| Whose footsteps are not known | C |
| To night a world that turned from Thee | B |
| Is waiting at Thy Throne | C |
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| The towering Babels that we raised | D |
| Where scoffing sophists brawl | E |
| The little Antichrists we praised | D |
| The night is on them all | E |
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| The fool hath said The fool hath said | F |
| And we who deemed him wise | G |
| We who believed that Thou wast dead | F |
| How should we seek Thine eyes | G |
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| How should we seek to Thee for power | H |
| Who scorned Thee yesterday | I |
| How should we kneel in this dread hour | H |
| Lord teach us how to pray | I |
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| Grant us the single heart once more | J |
| That mocks no sacred thing | K |
| The Sword of Truth our fathers wore | J |
| When Thou wast Lord and King | K |
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| Let darkness unto darkness tell | L |
| Our deep unspoken prayer | M |
| For while our souls in darkness dwell | L |
| We know that Thou art there | M |
Alfred Noyes
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