Our Prayer Of Thanks Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEC FGC HIJKLMC HDDNCFor the gladness here where the sun is shining at | A |
evening on the weeds at the river | B |
Our prayer of thanks | C |
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For the laughter of children who tumble barefooted and | D |
bareheaded in the summer grass | E |
Our prayer of thanks | C |
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For the sunset and the stars the women and the white | F |
arms that hold us | G |
Our prayer of thanks | C |
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God | H |
If you are deaf and blind if this is all lost to you | I |
God if the dead in their coffins amid the silver handles | J |
on the edge of town or the reckless dead of war | K |
days thrown unknown in pits if these dead are | L |
forever deaf and blind and lost | M |
Our prayer of thanks | C |
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God | H |
The game is all your way the secrets and the signals and | D |
the system and so for the break of the game and | D |
the first play and the last | N |
Our prayer of thanks | C |
Carl Sandburg
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