Saint Peter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEE FFGGH I JJKKLLMM NNLLOOHHKKPPKKQQ| O Peter wherefore didst thou doubt | A |
| Indeed the spray flew fast about | A |
| But he was there whose walking foot | B |
| Could make the wandering hills take root | C |
| And he had said Come down to me | D |
| Else hadst thou not set foot on sea | D |
| Christ did not call thee to thy grave | E |
| Was it the boat that made thee brave | E |
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| Easy for thee who wast not there | F |
| To think thou more than I couldst dare | F |
| It hardly fits thee though to mock | G |
| Scared as thou wast that railway shock | G |
| Who saidst this morn 'Wife we must go | H |
| The plague will soon be here I know ' | - |
| Who when thy child slept not to death | I |
| Saidst 'Life is now not worth a breath ' | - |
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| Saint Peter thou rebukest well | J |
| It needs no tempest me to quell | J |
| Not even a spent lash of its spray | K |
| Things far too little to affray | K |
| Will wake the doubt that's worst of all | L |
| Is there a God to hear me call | L |
| But if he be I never think | M |
| That he will hear and let me sink | M |
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| Lord of my little faith my Lord | N |
| Help me to fear nor fire nor sword | N |
| Let not the cross itself appall | L |
| Which bore thee Life and Lord of all | L |
| Let reeling brain nor fainting heart | O |
| Wipe out the soreness that thou art | O |
| Dwell farther in than doubt can go | H |
| And make I hope become I know | H |
| Then sure if thou should please to say | K |
| Come to my side some stormy way | K |
| My feet atoning to thy will | P |
| Shall heaved and tossed walk toward thee still | P |
| No heart of lead shall sink me where | K |
| Prudence lies crowned with cold despair | K |
| But I shall reach and clasp thy hand | Q |
| And on the sea forget the land | Q |
George Macdonald
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