Unanswered Prayers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMCNOPQRS TUVWJXYKZA2CB2| Like some school master kind in being stern | A |
| Who hears the children crying o er their slates | B |
| And calling Help me master yet helps not | C |
| Since in his silence and refusal lies | D |
| Their self development so God abides | E |
| Unheeding many prayers He is not deaf | F |
| To any cry sent up from earnest hearts | G |
| He hears and strengthens when He must deny | H |
| He sees us weeping over life s hard sums | I |
| But should He give us the key and dry our tears | J |
| What would it profit us when school were done | K |
| And not one lesson mastered | L |
| What a world | M |
| Where this if all our prayers were answered Not | C |
| In famed Pandora s box were such vast ills | N |
| As lie in human hearts Should our desires | O |
| Voiced one by one in prayer ascend to God | P |
| And come back as events shaped to our wish | Q |
| What chaos would result | R |
| In my fierce youth | S |
| I sighed out a breath enough to move a fleet | T |
| Voicing wild prayers to heaven for fancied boons | U |
| Which were denied and that denial bends | V |
| My knee to prayers of gratitude each day | W |
| Of my maturer years Yet from those prayers | J |
| I rose always regirded for the strife | X |
| And conscious of new strength Pray on sad heart | Y |
| That which thou pleadest for may not be given | K |
| But in the lofty altitude where souls | Z |
| Who supplicate God s grace are lifted there | A2 |
| Thou shalt find help to bear thy daily lot | C |
| Which is not elsewhere found | B2 |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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