A Student's Evening Hymn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCCBCB A DEDEEDED A FGFGGFGF H FIFIIFIF H JEJEEJEJ H KHKHHKHK H LFIFFLFI H MHMHHMHM F NEOEEOEO F FPFQQFQF| I | A |
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| Now no more the slanting rays | B |
| With the mountain summits dally | C |
| Now no more in crimson blaze | B |
| Evening s fleecy cloudless rally | C |
| Soon shall Night front off the valley | C |
| Sweep that bright yet earthly haze | B |
| And the stars most musically | C |
| Move in endless rounds of praise | B |
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| II | A |
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| While the world is growing dim | D |
| And the Sun is slow descending | E |
| Past the far horizon s rim | D |
| Earth's low sky to heaven extending | E |
| Let my feeble earth notes blending | E |
| With the songs of cherubim | D |
| Through the same expanse ascending | E |
| Thus renew my evening hymn | D |
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| III | A |
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| Thou that fill st our waiting eyes | F |
| With the food of contemplation | G |
| Setting in thy darkened skies | F |
| Signs of infinite creation | G |
| Grant to nightly meditation | G |
| What the toilsome day denies | F |
| Teach me in this earthly station | G |
| Heavenly Truth to realise | F |
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| IV | H |
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| Give me wisdom so to use | F |
| These brief hours of thoughtful leisure | I |
| That I may no instant lose | F |
| In mere meditative pleasure | I |
| But with strictest justice measure | I |
| All the ends my life pursues | F |
| Lies to crush and truths to treasure | I |
| Wrong to shun and Right to choose | F |
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| V | H |
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| Then when unexpected Sleep | J |
| O er my long closed eyelids stealing | E |
| Opens up that lower deep | J |
| Where Existence has no feeling | E |
| May sweet Calm my languor healing | E |
| Lend note strength at dawn to reap | J |
| All that Shadows world concealing | E |
| For the bold enquirer keep | J |
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| VI | H |
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| Through the creatures Thou hast made | K |
| Show the brightness of Thy glory | H |
| Be eternal Truth displayed | K |
| In their substance transitory | H |
| Till green Earth and Ocean hoary | H |
| Massy rock and tender blade | K |
| Tell the same unending story | H |
| We are Truth in Form arrayed | K |
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| VII | H |
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| When to study I retire | L |
| And from books of ancient sages | F |
| Glean fresh sparks of buried fire | I |
| Lurking in their ample pages | F |
| While the task my mind engages | F |
| Let old words new truths inspire | L |
| Truths that to all after ages | F |
| Prompt the Thoughts that never tire | I |
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| VIII | H |
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| Yet if led by shadows fair | M |
| I have uttered words of folly | H |
| Let the kind absorbing air | M |
| Stifle every sound unholy | H |
| So when Saints with Angels lowly | H |
| Join in heaven s unceasing prayer | M |
| Mine as certainly though slowly | H |
| May ascend and mingle there | M |
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| IX | F |
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| Teach me so Thy works to read | N |
| That my faith new strength accruing | E |
| May from world to world proceed | O |
| Wisdom's fruitful search pursuing | E |
| Till thy truth my mind imbuing | E |
| I proclaim the Eternal Creed | O |
| Oft the glorious theme renewing | E |
| God our Lord is God indeed | O |
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| X | F |
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| Give me love aright to trace | F |
| Thine to everything created | P |
| Preaching to a ransomed race | F |
| By Thy mercy renovated | Q |
| Till with all thy fulness sated | Q |
| I behold thee face to face | F |
| And with Ardour unabated | Q |
| Sing the glories of thy grace | F |
James Clerk Maxwell
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