A Short Sermon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBB CCC DDD EEE FFG HHH IIJ KKK LLL MMM NNN IIJ| He that giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord | A |
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| The night wind comes in sudden squalls | B |
| The ruddy fire light starts and falls | B |
| Fantastically on the walls | B |
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| The bare trees all their branches wave | C |
| The frantic wind doth howl and rave | C |
| Like prairie wolf above a grave | C |
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| The moon looks out but cold and pale | D |
| And seeming scar'd at this wild gale | D |
| Draws o'er her pallid face a veil | D |
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| In vain I turn the poet's page | E |
| In vain consult some ancient sage | E |
| I hear alone the tempest rage | E |
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| The shutters tug at hinge and bar | F |
| The windows clash with frosty jar | F |
| The child creeps closer to Papa | G |
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| And now I almost start aghast | H |
| The clamor rises thick and fast | H |
| Surely a troop of fiends drove past | H |
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| That last shock shook the oaken door | I |
| Sounding like billows on the shore | I |
| On such a night God shield the poor | J |
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| God shield the poor to night who stay | K |
| In piteous homes who if they pray | K |
| Ask thee oh God for bread and day | K |
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| Think think ye men who daily wear | L |
| Purple and linen ye whose hair | L |
| Flings perfume on the temper'd air | L |
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| Think think I say aye start and think | M |
| That many tremble on death's brink | M |
| Dying for want of meat and drink | M |
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| When tatter'd poor folk meet your eyes | N |
| Think friend like Christian in this wise | N |
| Each one is Christ hid in disguise | N |
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| Then when you hear the tempest's roar | I |
| That thunders at your carv d door | I |
| Know that it knocketh for the poor | J |
James Barron Hope
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