Deceitful Calm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHII JKJKLL MNMNOO| The winds are still the sea lies all untroubled | A |
| Beneath a cloudless sky the morn is bright | B |
| Yet Lord I feel my need of Thee is doubled | A |
| Come nearer to me in this blaze of light | B |
| The night must fall the storm will burst at length | C |
| Oh give me strength | C |
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| So well so well I know the treacherous seeming | D |
| Of days like this they are too heavenly fair | E |
| Those waves that laugh like happy children dreaming | D |
| Are mighty forces brewing some despair | E |
| For thoughtless hearts and ere the hour of need | F |
| Let mine take heed | F |
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| Joy cannot last it must give place to sorrow | G |
| As certainly as solar systems roll | H |
| I would not wait till that time comes to borrow | G |
| The strength prayer offers to a suffering soul | H |
| Here in the sunlight yet undimmed by shade | I |
| I cry for aid | I |
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| I dare not lightly drain the cup of pleasure | J |
| Though Thine the hand that proffers me the draught | K |
| Such bitter lees lie lower in the measure | J |
| I shall need courage ere the potion's quaffed | K |
| Then strengthen me before that time befall | L |
| To drink the gall | L |
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| I need Thee in my joys and my successes | M |
| To make me humble grateful and not vain | N |
| I need Thee when the weight of sorrow presses | M |
| The tortured heart that cries aloud in pain | N |
| So close great pleasures and great anguish lie | O |
| Lord Lord come nigh | O |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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