The Promise Of The Morning Star Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDD EFFE GHHG IJJI| Thou father of the children of my brain | A |
| By thee engendered in my willing heart | B |
| How can I thank thee for this gift of art | B |
| Poured out so lavishly and not in vain | A |
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| What thou created never more can die | C |
| Thy fructifying power lives in me | D |
| And I conceive knowing it is by thee | D |
| Dear other parent of my poetry | D |
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| For I was but a shadow with a name | E |
| Perhaps by now the very name's forgot | F |
| So strange is Fate that it has been my lot | F |
| To learn through thee the presence of that aim | E |
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| Which evermore must guide me All unknown | G |
| By me unguessed by thee not even dreamed | H |
| A tree has blossomed in a night that seemed | H |
| Of stubborn barren wood For thou hast sown | G |
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| This seed of beauty in a ground of truth | I |
| Humbly I dedicate myself and yet | J |
| I tremble with a sudden fear to set | J |
| New music ringing through my fading youth | I |
Amy Lowell
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