The Sifting Of Peter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCD EEDFFB GGHIIH JJJKKJ LLMNNM OOPQQP IIHRRH| In St Luke's Gospel we are told | A |
| How Peter in the days of old | A |
| Was sifted | B |
| And now though ages intervene | C |
| Sin is the same while time and scene | C |
| Are shifted | D |
| - | |
| Satan desires us great and small | E |
| As wheat to sift us and we all | E |
| Are tempted | D |
| Not one however rich or great | F |
| Is by his station or estate | F |
| Exempted | B |
| - | |
| No house so safely guarded is | G |
| But he by some device of his | G |
| Can enter | H |
| No heart hath armor so complete | I |
| But he can pierce with arrows fleet | I |
| Its centre | H |
| - | |
| For all at last the cock will crow | J |
| Who hear the warning voice but go | J |
| Unheeding | J |
| Till thrice and more they have denied | K |
| The Man of Sorrows crucified | K |
| And bleeding | J |
| - | |
| One look of that pale suffering face | L |
| Will make us feel the deep disgrace | L |
| Of weakness | M |
| We shall be sifted till the strength | N |
| Of self conceit be changed at length | N |
| To meekness | M |
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| Wounds of the soul though healed will ache | O |
| The reddening scars remain and make | O |
| Confession | P |
| Lost innocence returns no more | Q |
| We are not what we were before | Q |
| Transgression | P |
| - | |
| But noble souls through dust and heat | I |
| Rise from disaster and defeat | I |
| The stronger | H |
| And conscious still of the divine | R |
| Within them lie on earth supine | R |
| No longer | H |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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