The Evening Prayer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDECFFGAHHIA AAJBKKLBMMNABBIA| Little girlie kneeling there | A |
| Speaking low your evening prayer | A |
| In your cunning little nightie | B |
| With your pink toes peeping through | C |
| With your eyes closed and your hands | D |
| Tightly clasped while daddy stands | D |
| In the doorway just to hear the | E |
| 'God bless papa ' lisped by you | C |
| You don't know just what I feel | F |
| As I watch you nightly kneel | F |
| By your trundle bed and whisper | G |
| Soft and low your little prayer | A |
| But in all I do or plan | H |
| I'm a bigger better man | H |
| Every time I hear you asking | I |
| God to make my journey fair | A |
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| Little girlie kneeling there | A |
| Lisping low your evening prayer | A |
| Asking God above to bless me | J |
| At the closing of each day | B |
| Oft the tears come to my eyes | K |
| And I feel a big lump rise | K |
| In my throat that I can't swallow | L |
| And I sometimes turn away | B |
| In the morning when I wake | M |
| And my post of duty take | M |
| I go forth with new born courage | N |
| To accomplish what is fair | A |
| And throughout the live long day | B |
| I am striving every way | B |
| To come back to you each evening | I |
| And be worthy of your prayer | A |
Edgar Albert Guest
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