A Thanksgiving Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACAC DEFEGHGI GGGGJKJK JLJLMNMN MOMOJPJP ABABACACI 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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