Let Us Give Thanks Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCD EEFFGGD HHIIJJD KKLLMMD NNOPQQD| For the courage which comes when we call | A |
| While troubles like hailstones fall | A |
| For the help that is somehow nigh | B |
| In the deepest night when we cry | B |
| For the path that is certainly shown | C |
| When we pray in the dark alone | C |
| Let us give thanks | D |
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| For the knowledge we gain if we wait | E |
| And bear all the buffets of fate | E |
| For the vision that beautifies sight | F |
| If we look under wrong for the right | F |
| For the gleam of the ultimate goal | G |
| That shines on each reverent soul | G |
| Let us give thanks | D |
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| For the consciousness stirring in creeds | H |
| That love is the thing the world needs | H |
| For the cry of the travailing earth | I |
| That is giving a new faith birth | I |
| For the God we are learning to find | J |
| In the heart and the soul and the mind | J |
| Let us give thanks | D |
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| For the growth of the spirit through pain | K |
| Like a plant in the soil and the rain | K |
| For the dropping of needless things | L |
| Which the sword of a sorrow brings | L |
| For the meaning and purpose of life | M |
| Which dawns on us out of the strife | M |
| Let us give thanks | D |
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| For the solace that comes to our grief | N |
| In knowing earth's season is brief | N |
| For the certitude given by faith | O |
| Of the continents out beyond death | P |
| For the glorious thought that each day | Q |
| Is speeding us the reward away | Q |
| Let us give thanks | D |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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