As We Prayed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABBC DDDEEE AAAFFF| Often as we watched her there | A |
| From our lips there fell this prayer | A |
| 'God give us the pain to bear | A |
| Let us suffer in her place | B |
| Take the anguish from her face | B |
| Soothe her with Thy holy grace ' | C |
| - | |
| Then the angels came and they | D |
| Took her lovely soul away | D |
| From the torture house of clay | D |
| As we'd prayed they brought release | E |
| Smoothed her brow with gentle peace | E |
| But our pain shall never cease | E |
| - | |
| Ours is now the hurt to bear | A |
| Ours the anguish and despair | A |
| Ours the agony to share | A |
| When our hearts with grief were stirred | F |
| Thus we prayed and thus were heard | F |
| Shall we fail to keep our word | F |
Edgar Albert Guest
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