Prayer At Sunrise Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDDD AAEEFFGG| O mighty powerful dark dispelling sun | A |
| Now thou art risen and thy day begun | A |
| How shrink the shrouding mists before thy face | B |
| As up thou spring'st to thy diurnal race | B |
| How darkness chases darkness to the west | C |
| As shades of light on light rise radiant from thy crest | C |
| For thee great source of strength emblem of might | D |
| In hours of darkest gloom there is no night | D |
| Thou shinest on though clouds hide thee from sight | D |
| And through each break thou sendest down thy light | D |
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| O greater Maker of this Thy great sun | A |
| Give me the strength this one day's race to run | A |
| Fill me with light fill me with sun like strength | E |
| Fill me with joy to rob the day its length | E |
| Light from within light that will outward shine | F |
| Strength to make strong some weaker heart than mine | F |
| Joy to make glad each soul that feels its touch | G |
| Great Father of the sun I ask this much | G |
James Weldon Johnson
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