A Grain Of Sand Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EFGHAAII JJKKCCLL MMN OOHH| Do you see this grain of sand | A |
| Lying loosely in my hand | A |
| Do you know to me it brought | B |
| Just a simple loving thought | B |
| When one gazes night by night | C |
| On the glorious stars of light | C |
| Oh how little seems the span | D |
| Measured round the life of man | D |
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| Oh how fleeting are his years | E |
| With their smiles and their tears | F |
| Can it be that God does care | G |
| For such atoms as we are | H |
| Then outspake this grain of sand | A |
| 'I was fashioned by His hand | A |
| In the star lit realms of space | I |
| I was made to have a place | I |
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| 'Should the ocean flood the world | J |
| Were its mountains 'gainst me hurled | J |
| All the force they could employ | K |
| Wouldn't a single grain destroy | K |
| And if I a thing so light | C |
| Have a place within His sight | C |
| You are linked unto his throne | L |
| Cannot live nor die alone | L |
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| In the everlasting arms | M |
| Mid life's dangers and alarms | M |
| Let calm trust your spirit fill | N |
| Know He's God and then be still ' | - |
| Trustingly I raised my head | O |
| Hearing what the atom said | O |
| Knowing man is greater far | H |
| Than the brightest sun or star | H |
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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