A Prayer In Darkness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFGE HIIH| This much O heaven if I should brood or rave | A |
| Pity me not but let the world be fed | B |
| Yea in my madness if I strike me dead | B |
| Heed you the grass that grows upon my grave | A |
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| If I dare snarl between this sun and sod | C |
| Whimper and clamour give me grace to own | D |
| In sun and rain and fruit in season shown | D |
| The shining silence of the scorn of God | C |
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| Thank God the stars are set beyond my power | E |
| If I must travail in a night of wrath | F |
| Thank God my tears will never vex a moth | G |
| Nor any curse of mine cut down a flower | E |
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| Men say the sun was darkened yet I had | H |
| Thought it beat brightly even on Calvary | I |
| And He that hung upon the Torturing Tree | I |
| Heard all the crickets singing and was glad | H |
G. K. Chesterton
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