Hymn For A Sick Girl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM| Father 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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