A Thanksgiving Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACAC DEFEGHGI GGGGJKJK JLJLMNMN MOMOJPJP ABABACAC| I Thank Thee boundless Giver | A |
| That the thoughts Thou givest flow | B |
| In sounds that like a river | A |
| All through the darkness go | B |
| And though few should swell the pleasure | A |
| By sharing this my wine | C |
| My heart will clasp its treasure | A |
| This secret gift of Thine | C |
| - | |
| My heart the joy inherits | D |
| And will oft be sung to rest | E |
| And some wandering hoping spirits | F |
| May listen and be blest | E |
| For the sound may break the hours | G |
| In a dark and gloomy mood | H |
| As the wind breaks up the bowers | G |
| Of the brooding sunless wood | I |
| - | |
| For every sound of gladness | G |
| Is a prophet wind that tells | G |
| Of a summer without sadness | G |
| And a love without farewells | G |
| And a heart that hath no ailing | J |
| And an eye that is not dim | K |
| And a faith that without failing | J |
| Shall be complete in Him | K |
| - | |
| And when my heart is mourning | J |
| The songs it lately gave | L |
| Back to their fount returning | J |
| Make sweet the bitter wave | L |
| And forth a new stream floweth | M |
| In sunshine winding fair | N |
| And through the dark wood goeth | M |
| Glad laughter on the air | N |
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| For the heart of man that waketh | M |
| Yet hath not ceased to dream | O |
| Is the only fount that maketh | M |
| The sweet and bitter stream | O |
| But the sweet will still be flowing | J |
| When the bitter stream is dry | P |
| And glad music only going | J |
| On the breezes of the sky | P |
| - | |
| I thank Thee boundless Giver | A |
| That the thoughts Thou givest flow | B |
| In sounds that like a river | A |
| All through the darkness go | B |
| And though few should swell the pleasure | A |
| By sharing this my wine | C |
| My heart will clasp its treasure | A |
| This secret gift of Thine | C |
George Macdonald
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