The Carpenter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGHG IJIJ IKIK LMLM NONO| O Lord at Joseph's humble bench | A |
| Thy hands did handle saw and plane | B |
| Thy hammer nails did drive and clench | A |
| Avoiding knot and humouring grain | B |
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| That thou didst seem thou wast indeed | C |
| In sport thy tools thou didst not use | D |
| Nor helping hind's or fisher's need | C |
| The labourer's hire too nice refuse | E |
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| Lord might I be but as a saw | F |
| A plane a chisel in thy hand | G |
| No Lord I take it back in awe | H |
| Such prayer for me is far too grand | G |
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| I pray O Master let me lie | I |
| As on thy bench the favoured wood | J |
| Thy saw thy plane thy chisel ply | I |
| And work me into something good | J |
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| No no ambition holy high | I |
| Urges for more than both to pray | K |
| Come in O gracious Force I cry | I |
| O workman share my shed of clay | K |
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| Then I at bench or desk or oar | L |
| With knife or needle voice or pen | M |
| As thou in Nazareth of yore | L |
| Shall do the Father's will again | M |
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| Thus fashioning a workman rare | N |
| O Master this shall be thy fee | O |
| Home to thy father thou shall bear | N |
| Another child made like to thee | O |
George Macdonald
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