Presumption Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEFE BGBGAHAH IJIHKHK| Whenever I am prone to doubt or wonder | A |
| I check myself and say 'That mighty One | B |
| Who made the solar system cannot blunder | A |
| And for the best all things are being done ' | C |
| Who set the stars on their eternal courses | D |
| Has fashioned this strange earth by come sure plan | E |
| Bow low bow low to those majestic forces | F |
| Nor dare to doubt their wisdom puny man | E |
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| You cannot put one little star in motion | B |
| You cannot shape one single forest leaf | G |
| Nor fling a mountain up nor sink an ocean | B |
| Presumptuous pigmy large with unbelief | G |
| You cannot bring one dawn of regal splendour | A |
| Nor bid the day to shadowy twilight fall | H |
| Nor send the pale moon forth with radiance tender | A |
| And dare you doubt the One who has done all | H |
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| 'So much is wrong there is such pain such sinning ' | - |
| Yet look again behold how much is right | I |
| And He who formed the world from its beginning | J |
| Knows how o guide it upward to the light | I |
| Your task O man is not to carp and cavil | H |
| At God's achievements but with purpose strong | K |
| To cling to good and turn away from evil | H |
| That is the way to help the world along | K |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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