The Old Dispensation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD AAEFGHII JJKKLLIIO THOU who high in heaven | A |
To man hast given | A |
This clouded earthly life | B |
All storm and strife | B |
Blasted with ice and fire | C |
Love and desire | C |
Filled with dead faith and love | D |
That change is master of | D |
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O Thou who mightest have given | A |
To all Thy heaven | A |
But who instead didst give | E |
This life we live | F |
Who feedest with blood and tears | G |
The hungry years | H |
I make one prayer to Thee | I |
O Great God grant it me | I |
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Some day when summer shows | J |
Her leaf her rose | J |
God let Thy sinner lie | K |
Under Thy sky | K |
And feel Thy sun's large grace | L |
Upon his face | L |
Then grant him this that he | I |
May not believe in Thee | I |
Edith Nesbit
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