My Faith Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBABBCCD EFFEGGCC FHHFBBCC IJJIBB C| My faith is rooted in no written creed | A |
| And there are those who call me heretic | B |
| Yet year on year though I be well or sick | B |
| Or opulent or in the slough of need | A |
| If light of foot fair Life trips by me pleasuring | B |
| Or by the rule of pain old Time stands measuring | B |
| The dull drab moments still ascends my cry | C |
| 'God reigns on high | C |
| He doeth all things well ' | D |
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| Not much I prize or one or any brand | E |
| Of theologic lore nor think too well | F |
| Of generally accepted heaven and hell | F |
| But faith and knowledge build at Love's command | E |
| A beauteous heaven a heaven of thought all clarified | G |
| Of hate and fear and doubt a heaven of rarefied | G |
| And perfect trust and from the heaven I cry | C |
| 'God reigns on high | C |
| Whatever is is best ' | - |
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| My faith refuses to accept the 'fall' | F |
| It sees man ever as a child of God | H |
| Growing in wisdom as new realms are trod | H |
| Until the Christ in him is One with All | F |
| From this full consciousness my faith is borrowing | B |
| Light to illuminate Life's darkest sorrowing | B |
| Whatever woes assail me still I cry | C |
| 'God reigns on high | C |
| He doeth all things well ' | - |
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| My faith finds prayer the language of the heart | I |
| Which gives us converse with the host unseen | J |
| And those who linger in the vales between | J |
| The Here and Yonder in these prayers take part | I |
| My dead come near and say 'Death means not perishing | B |
| Cherish us in your thoughts for by that cherishing | B |
| Shall severed links be welded by and by ' | - |
| 'God reigns on high | C |
| Whatever is is best ' | - |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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