Be Not Dismayed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACBBDEFEFGGHIIHHI IHJKJKLL| Be not dismayed be not dismayed when death | A |
| Sets its white seal upon some worshipped face | B |
| Poor human nature for a little space | B |
| Must suffer anguish when that last drawn breath | A |
| Leaves such long silence but let not thy faith | C |
| Fail for a moment in God's boundless grace | B |
| But know oh know He has prepared a place | B |
| Fairer for our dear dead than worlds beneath | D |
| Yet not beneath for those entrancing spheres | E |
| Surround our earth as seas a barren isle | F |
| Ours is the region of eternal fears | E |
| Theirs is the region where God's radiant smile | F |
| Shines outward from the centre and gives hope | G |
| Even to those who in the shadows grope | G |
| They are not far from us At first though long | H |
| And lone may seem the paths that intervene | I |
| If ever on the staff of prayer we lean | I |
| The silence will grow eloquent with song | H |
| And our weak faith with certitude wax strong | H |
| Intense yet tranquil fervent yet serene | I |
| He must be who would contact World Unseen | I |
| And comrade with their Amaranthine throng | H |
| Not through the tossing waves of surging grief | J |
| Come spirit ships to port When storms subside | K |
| Then with their precious cargoes of relief | J |
| Into the harbour of the heart they glide | K |
| For him who will believe and trust and wait | L |
| Death's austere silence grows articulate | L |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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