A Hidden Life: A Prelude Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDECCDECFGGFFG HIIHHIIHJKKJJK G L| TO MY FATHER | A |
| with my second volume of verse | B |
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| I | - |
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| Take of the first fruits father of thy care | C |
| Wrapped in the fresh leaves of my gratitude | D |
| Late waked for early gifts ill understood | E |
| Claiming in all my harvests rightful share | C |
| Whether with song that mounts the joyful air | C |
| I praise my God or in yet deeper mood | D |
| Sit dumb because I know a speechless good | E |
| Needing no voice but all the soul for prayer | C |
| Thou hast been faithful to my highest need | F |
| And I thy debtor ever evermore | G |
| Shall never feel the grateful burden sore | G |
| Yet most I thank thee not for any deed | F |
| But for the sense thy living self did breed | F |
| Of fatherhood still at the great world's core | G |
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| II | - |
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| All childhood reverence clothed thee undefined | H |
| As for some being of another race | I |
| Ah not with it departing growing apace | I |
| As years did bring me manhood's loftier mind | H |
| Able to see thy human life behind | H |
| The same hid heart the same revealing face | I |
| My own dim contest settling into grace | I |
| Of sorrow strife and victory combined | H |
| So I beheld my God in childhood's morn | J |
| A mist a darkness great and far apart | K |
| Moveless and dim I scarce could say Thou art | K |
| My manhood came of joy and sadness born | J |
| Full soon the misty dark asunder torn | J |
| Revealed man's glory God's great human heart | K |
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| G M D jr | G |
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| ALGIERS April | L |
George Macdonald
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