Hymn For A Sick Girl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLMFather in the dark I lay | A |
Thirsting for the light | B |
Helpless but for hope alway | C |
In thy father might | B |
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Out of darkness came the morn | D |
Out of death came life | E |
I and faith and hope new born | D |
Out of moaning strife | E |
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So one morning yet more fair | F |
I shall joyous brave | G |
Sudden breathing loftier air | F |
Triumph o'er the grave | G |
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Though this feeble body lie | H |
Underneath the ground | I |
Wide awake not sleeping I | H |
Shall in him be found | I |
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But a morn yet fairer must | J |
Quell this inner gloom | K |
Resurrection from the dust | J |
Of a deeper tomb | K |
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Father wake thy little child | L |
Give me bread and wine | M |
Till my spirit undefiled | L |
Rise and live in thine | M |
George Macdonald
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