This World Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFG HGHGII GJGJGG KGKGGG LMNOGG EPEQRR SGTGBB| Thy world is made to fit thine own | A |
| A nursery for thy children small | B |
| The playground footstool of thy throne | A |
| Thy solemn school room Father of all | B |
| When day is done in twilight's gloom | C |
| We pass into thy presence room | C |
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| Because from selfishness and wrath | D |
| Our cold and hot extremes of ill | E |
| We grope and stagger on the path | D |
| Thou tell'st us from thy holy hill | E |
| With icy storms and sunshine rude | F |
| That we are all unripe in good | G |
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| Because of snaky things that creep | H |
| Through our soul's sea dim undulant | G |
| Thou fill'st the mystery of thy deep | H |
| With faces heartless grim and gaunt | G |
| That we may know how ugly seem | I |
| The things our spirit oceans teem | I |
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| Because of half way things that hold | G |
| Good names and have a poisonous breath | J |
| Prudence that is but trust in gold | G |
| And faith that is but fear of death | J |
| Amongst thy flowers the lovely brood | G |
| Thou sendest some that are not good | G |
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| Thou stay'st thy hand from finishing things | K |
| To make thy child love the complete | G |
| Full many a flower comes up thy springs | K |
| Unshamed in imperfection sweet | G |
| That through good all and good in part | G |
| Thy work be perfect in the heart | G |
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| Because in careless confidence | L |
| So oft we leave the narrow way | M |
| Its borders thorny hedges fence | N |
| Beyond them marshy deeps affray | O |
| But farther on the heavenly road | G |
| Lies through the gardens of our God | G |
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| Because thy sheep so often will | E |
| Forsake the meadow cool and damp | P |
| To climb the stony grassless hill | E |
| Or wallow in the slimy swamp | Q |
| Thy sicknesses where'er they roam | R |
| Go after them to bring them home | R |
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| One day all fear all ugliness | S |
| All pain all discord dumb or loud | G |
| All selfishness and all distress | T |
| Will melt like low spread morning cloud | G |
| And heart and brain be free from thrall | B |
| Because thou God art all in all | B |
George Macdonald
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