Be Not Anxious Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDCDBE FGFGHH AIAIJJ KLMLNN OPOPQQ RSRTDU| Be careful for nothing Phil iv Revised version Be | A |
| not anxious | B |
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| Of all the precepts in the Book | C |
| By word of inspiration given | D |
| That bear the import tone and look | C |
| Of messages direct from heaven | D |
| From Revelation back to Genesis | B |
| Is nothing needed half so much as this | E |
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| Ah well the great apostle spake | F |
| In admonition wise and kind | G |
| Who bade humanity forsake | F |
| The petty weaknesses that bind | G |
| The spirit like a bird with pinioned wings | H |
| That to a broken bough despairing clings | H |
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| Were all undue anxiety | A |
| Eliminated from desire | I |
| Could feverish fears and fancies be | A |
| Consumed on some funeral pyre | I |
| Like holy hecatomb or sacrifice | J |
| 'Twould be accepted up in Paradise | J |
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| Could this machinery go on | K |
| Without the friction caused by fret | L |
| What greater loads were lightly drawn | M |
| More easily were trials met | L |
| Then might existence be with blessings rife | N |
| And lengthened out like Hezekiah's life | N |
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| Oh be not anxious trouble grows | O |
| When cherished like a secret grief | P |
| It is the worm within the rose | O |
| That eats the heart out leaf by leaf | P |
| And though the outer covering be fair | Q |
| The weevil of decay is busy there | Q |
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| In deep despondency to pine | R |
| Or vain solicitude | S |
| Is to deny this truth divine | R |
| That God is great and good | T |
| That he is Ruler over earth and Heaven | D |
| And so disposes and makes all things even | U |
Hattie Howard
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