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 GB2C2B2Father 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 see'st 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 Superstition 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 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 for 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 groveling 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 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 trackless realms of aether'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 plac'd 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 restor'd | Y |
My soul shall float on airy wing | Z |
How shall thy glorious Name ador'd | Y |
Inspire her feeble voice to sing | Z |
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But if this fleeting spirit share | B |
With clay the Grave's 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 |
George Gordon Lord Byron
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