America's Thanksgiving Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCB DDEFD GGCCG HHIIH JJBBJ CCKLI MMNNM OOPPO| A | |
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| Father all bountiful in mercy bear | B |
| With this our universal voice of prayer | B |
| The voice that needs must be | C |
| Upraised in thanks to Thee | C |
| O Father from Thy children everywhere | B |
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| A multitudinous voice wherein we fain | D |
| Wouldst have Thee hear no lightest sob of pain | D |
| No murmur of distress | E |
| Nor moan of loneliness | F |
| Nor drip of tears though soft as summer rain | D |
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| And Father give us first to comprehend | G |
| No ill can come from Thee lean Thou and lend | G |
| Us clearer sight to see | C |
| Our boundless debt to Thee | C |
| Since all Thy deeds are blessings in the end | G |
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| And let us feel and know that being Thine | H |
| We are inheritors of hearts divine | H |
| And hands endowed with skill | I |
| And strength to work Thy will | I |
| And fashion to fulfilment Thy design | H |
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| So let us thank Thee with all self aside | J |
| Nor any lingering taint of mortal pride | J |
| As here to Thee we dare | B |
| Uplift our faltering prayer | B |
| Lend it some fervor of the glorified | J |
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| We thank Thee that our land is loved of Thee | C |
| The blessed home of thrift and industry | C |
| With ever open door | K |
| Of welcome to the poor | L |
| Thy shielding hand o'er all abidingly | I |
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| E'en thus we thank Thee for the wrong that grew | M |
| Into a right that heroes battled to | M |
| With brothers long estranged | N |
| Once more as brothers ranged | N |
| Beneath the red and white and starry blue | M |
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| Ay thanks though tremulous the thanks expressed | O |
| Thanks for the battle at its worst and best | O |
| For all the clanging fray | P |
| Whose discord dies away | P |
| Into a pastoral song of peace and rest | O |
James Whitcomb Riley
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