Receiving Sight Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH EIEI JKJK LLLL MEME NENE EEEE| In hours of meditation fraught | A |
| With mem'ries of departed days | B |
| Comes oft a tender loving thought | A |
| Of one who shared our youthful plays | B |
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| In gayest sports and pleasures rife | C |
| Whose happy nature reveled so | D |
| That on her ardent joyous life | C |
| A shadow lay we did not know | D |
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| And bade her look one summer night | E |
| Up to the sky that seemed to hold | F |
| In dying sunset splendor bright | E |
| All hues of sapphire red and gold | F |
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| How strange the spell that mystified | G |
| Us all and hushed our wonted glee | H |
| As sadly her sweet voice replied | G |
| Why don't you know I cannot see | H |
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| Too true those eyes bereft of sight | E |
| No blemish bare no drop serene | I |
| But nothing in this world of light | E |
| And beauty they had ever seen | I |
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| A dozen years in gentle ruth | J |
| Their impress lent to brow and cheek | K |
| When precious words of sacred truth | J |
| Led her the Saviour's face to seek | K |
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| Responsive unto earnest prayers | L |
| Commingling love and penitence | L |
| A blessing came not unawares | L |
| In new and strange experience | L |
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| And all was light as Faith's clear eye | M |
| A brighter world than ours divined | E |
| For never clouds obscured the sky | M |
| That she could see while we were blind | E |
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| Oh it must be an awful thing | N |
| To be shut out from light of day | E |
| From summer's grace and bloom of spring | N |
| In gladness words cannot portray | E |
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| But haply into every heart | E |
| May enter that Celestial Light | E |
| That doth to life's dark ways impart | E |
| A radiance hid from mortal sight | E |
Hattie Howard
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