Mercy Philbrick's Choice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBCBDEFGEG A CHHCCIHCJKLJLK| I | A |
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| To one who found us on a starless night | B |
| All helpless groping in a dangerous way | C |
| Where countless treacherous hidden pitfalls lay | C |
| And seeing all our peril flashed a light | B |
| To show to our bewildered blinded sight | B |
| By one swift clear and piercing ray | C |
| The safe sure path what words could reach the height | B |
| Of our great thankfulness And yet at most | D |
| The most he saved was this poor paltry life | E |
| Of flesh which is so little worth its cost | F |
| Which eager sows but may not stay to reap | G |
| And so soon breathless with the strain and strife | E |
| Its work half done exhausted falls asleep | G |
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| II | A |
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| But unto him who finds men's souls astray | C |
| In night that they know not is night at all | H |
| Walking with reckless feet where they may fall | H |
| Each moment into deadlier deaths than slay | C |
| The flesh to him whose truth can rend away | C |
| From such lost souls their moral night's black pall | I |
| Oh unto him what words can hearts recall | H |
| Which their deep gratitude finds fit to say | C |
| No words but these and these to him are best | J |
| That henceforth like a quenchless vestal flame | K |
| His words of truth shall burn on Truth's pure shrine | L |
| His memory be truth worshipped and confessed | J |
| Our gratitude and love the priestess line | L |
| Who serve before Truth's altar in his name | K |
Helen Hunt Jackson
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