Prayer In Time Of War Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEECC FFGGCC HHIICC| Now Death is near and very near | A |
| In this wild whirl of horror and fear | A |
| When round the vessel of our State | B |
| Roll the great mountain waves of hate | B |
| God We have but one prayer to day | C |
| O Father teach us how to pray | C |
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| For prayer is strong and very strong | D |
| But we have turned from Thee so long | D |
| To follow gods that have no power | E |
| Save in the safe and sordid hour | E |
| That to Thy feet we have lost the way | C |
| O Father teach us how to pray | C |
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| We have done ill and very ill | F |
| Set up our will against Thy will | F |
| That our soft lives might gorge full fed | G |
| We stole our brothers' daily bread | G |
| Lord we are sorry we went astray | C |
| O Father teach us how to pray | C |
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| Now in this hour of desperate strife | H |
| For England's life her very life | H |
| Teach us to pray that life may be | I |
| A new life beautiful to Thee | I |
| And in Thy hands that life to lay | C |
| O Father teach us how to pray | C |
E. (edith) Nesbit
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