What Is Prayer? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FCFC GDGD HIH JKJK LMLM NONO PCPQ RERE STST| Prayer is the soul's sincere desire | A |
| Unuttered or expressed | B |
| The motion of a hidden fire | A |
| That trembles in the breast | B |
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| Prayer is the burden of a sigh | C |
| The falling of a tear | D |
| The upward glancing of an eye | C |
| When none but God is near | E |
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| Prayer is the simplest form of speech | F |
| That infant lips can try | C |
| Prayer the sublimest strains that reach | F |
| The Majesty on high | C |
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| Prayer is the Christian's vital breath | G |
| The Christian's native air | D |
| His watchword at the gates of death | G |
| He enters heaven with prayer | D |
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| Prayer is the contrite sinner's voice | H |
| Returning from his ways | I |
| While angels in their songs rejoice | H |
| And cry 'Behold he prays ' | - |
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| The saints in prayer appear as one | J |
| In word in deed and mind | K |
| While with the Father and the Son | J |
| Sweet fellowship they find | K |
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| No prayer is made by man alone | L |
| The Holy Spirit pleads | M |
| And Jesus on th' eternal throne | L |
| For sinners intercedes | M |
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| O Thou by Whom we come to God | N |
| The Life the Truth the Way | O |
| The path of prayer Thyself hast trod | N |
| Lord teach us how to pray | O |
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| As fail the waters from the deep | P |
| As summer brooks run dry | C |
| Man lieth down in dreamless sleep | P |
| His life is vanity | Q |
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| Man lieth down no more to wake | R |
| Till yonder arching sphere | E |
| Shall with a roll of thunder break | R |
| And nature disappear | E |
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| Oh hide me till Thy wrath be past | S |
| Thou who canst slay or save | T |
| Hide me where hope may anchor fast | S |
| In my Redeemer's grave | T |
James Montgomery
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