This Is My Task Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFG HIJJKKCCLLMMG NOJJCCPPQQRRG| When the whole world resounds with rude alarms | A |
| Of warring arms | A |
| When God's good earth from border unto border | B |
| Shows man's disorder | B |
| Let me not waste my dower of mortal might | C |
| In grieving over wrongs I cannot right | C |
| This is my task amid discordant strife | D |
| To keep a clean sweet centre in my life | D |
| And though the human orchestra may be | E |
| Playing all out of key | E |
| To tune my soul to symphonies above | F |
| And sound the note of love | F |
| This is my task | G |
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| When by the minds of men most beauteous Faith | H |
| Seems doomed to death | I |
| And to her place is hoisted by soul treason | J |
| The dullard Reason | J |
| Let me not hurry forth with flag unfurled | K |
| To proselyte an unbelieving world | K |
| This is my task in depths of unstarred night | C |
| Or in diverting and distracting light | C |
| To keep in crowds or in my room alone | L |
| Faith on her lofty throne | L |
| And whatsoever happen or befall | M |
| To see God's hand in all | M |
| This is my task | G |
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| When in church pews men worship God in words | N |
| But meet their kind with swords | O |
| When Fair Religion stripped of holy passion | J |
| Walks masked as Fashion | J |
| Let me not wax indignant at the sight | C |
| Or waste my strength bewailing her sad plight | C |
| This is my task to search in my own mind | P |
| Until the qualities of God I find | P |
| To seek them in the hearts of friend and foe | Q |
| Or high or low | Q |
| And in my hours of toil or prayer or play | R |
| To live my creed each day | R |
| This is my task | G |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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