Patience, Hard Thing! The Hard Thing But To Pray Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBA CCDDDDPatience hard thing the hard thing but to pray | A |
But bid for Patience is Patience who asks | B |
Wants war wants wounds weary his times his tasks | B |
To do without take tosses and obey | A |
Rare patience roots in these and these away | A |
Nowhere Natural heart's ivy Patience masks | B |
Our ruins of wrecked past purpose There she basks | B |
Purple eyes and seas of liquid leaves all day | A |
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We hear our hearts grate on themselves it kills | C |
To bruise them dearer Yet the rebellious wills | C |
Of us we do bid God bend to him even so | D |
And where is he who more and more distils | D |
Delicious kindness He is patient Patience fills | D |
His crisp combs and that comes those ways we know | D |
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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