Morning Thoughts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL| What secret hand at morning light | A |
| By stealth unseals mine eye | B |
| Draws back the curtain of the night | A |
| And opens earth and sky | B |
| - | |
| 'Tis Thine my God the same that kept | C |
| My resting hours from harm | D |
| No ill came nigh me for I slept | C |
| Beneath th' Almighty's arm | D |
| - | |
| 'Tis Thine my daily bread that brings | E |
| Like manna scatter'd round | F |
| And clothes me as the lily springs | E |
| In beauty from the ground | F |
| - | |
| This is the hand that shaped my frame | G |
| And gave me pulse to beat | H |
| That bears me oft through flood and flame | G |
| Through tempest cold and heat | H |
| - | |
| In death's dark valley though I stray | I |
| 'Twould there my steps attend | J |
| Guide with the staff my lonely way | I |
| And with the rod defend | J |
| - | |
| May that dear hand uphold me still | K |
| Through life's uncertain race | L |
| To bring me to Thine holy hill | K |
| And to Thy dwelling place | L |
James Montgomery
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