The Prayer Of Nature Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IEIE JKJK LMLM NONO EPEP QRQS TUVU SWRW CXCX YZYZ BA2BA2 GB2C2B2 D2| Father of Light great God of Heaven | A |
| Hear'st thou the accents of despair | B |
| Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven | A |
| Can vice atone for crimes by prayer | B |
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| Father of Light on thee I call | C |
| Thou seest my soul is dark within | D |
| Thou who canst'mark the sparrow's fall | C |
| Avert from me the death of sin | D |
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| No shrine I seek to sects unknown | E |
| Oh point to me the path of truth | F |
| Thy dread omnipotence I own | E |
| Spare yet amend the faults of youth | F |
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| Let bigots rear a gloomy fane | G |
| Let superstitition hail the pile | H |
| Let priests to spread their sable reign | G |
| With tales of mystic rites beguile | H |
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| Shall man confine his Maker's sway | I |
| To Gothic domes of mouldering stone | E |
| Thy temple is the face of the day | I |
| Earth ocean heaven thy boundless throne | E |
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| Shall man condemn his race to hell | J |
| Unless they bend in pompous form | K |
| Tell us that all of one who fell | J |
| Must perish in the mingling storm | K |
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| Shall each pretend to reach the skies | L |
| Yet doom his brother to expire | M |
| Whose soul a different hope supplies | L |
| Or doctrines less severe inspire | M |
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| Shall these by creeds they can't expound | N |
| Prepare a fancied bliss or woe | O |
| Shall reptiles grovelling on the ground | N |
| Their great Creator's purpose know | O |
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| Shall those who live for self alone | E |
| Whose years float on in a daily crime | P |
| Shall they by Faith for guilt atone | E |
| And live beyond the bounds of Time | P |
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| Father no prophet's laws I seek | Q |
| Thy laws in Nature's works appear | R |
| I own myself corrupt and weak | Q |
| Yet will I pray for thou wilt hear | S |
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| Thou who canst guide the wandering star | T |
| Through trackness realms of other's space | U |
| Who calm'st the elemental war | V |
| Whose hand from pole to pole I trace | U |
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| Thou who in wisdom placed me here | S |
| Who when thou wilt canst take me hence | W |
| Ah whilst I tread this earthly sphere | R |
| Extend to me thy wide defence | W |
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| To Thee my God to thee I call | C |
| Whatever weal or woe betide | X |
| By thy command I rise or fall | C |
| In thy protection I confide | X |
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| If when this dust to dust's restored | Y |
| My soul shall float on airy wing | Z |
| How shall thy glorious name adored | Y |
| Inspire her feedle voice to sing | Z |
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| But if this fleeting spirit share | B |
| With clay the gaves eternal bed | A2 |
| While life yet throbs I raise my prayer | B |
| Though doom'd no more to quit the dead | A2 |
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| To Thee I breathe my humble strain | G |
| Grateful for all thy mercies past | B2 |
| And hope my God to thee again | C2 |
| This erring life may fly at last | B2 |
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| December | D2 |
George Gordon Byron
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