Ike Walton's Prayer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCDCEDCFFCEE EEGGEEAAAHHGGEGECECI AIA AAGHGGHAHAJJAAKLKLHH| I crave dear Lord | A |
| No boundless hoard | A |
| Of gold and gear | B |
| Nor jewels fine | C |
| Nor lands nor kine | C |
| Nor treasure heaps of anything | D |
| Let but a little hut be mine | C |
| Where at the hearthstore I may hear | E |
| The cricket sing | D |
| And have the shine | C |
| Of one glad woman's eyes to make | F |
| For my poor sake | F |
| Our simple home a place divine | C |
| Just the wee cot the cricket's chirr | E |
| Love and the smiling face of her | E |
| - | |
| I pray not for | E |
| Great riches nor | E |
| For vast estates and castle halls | G |
| Give me to hear the bare footfalls | G |
| Of children o er | E |
| An oaken floor | E |
| New risen with sunshine or bespread | A |
| With but the tiny coverlet | A |
| And pillow for the baby s head | A |
| And pray Thou may | H |
| The door stand open and the day | H |
| Send ever in a gentle breeze | G |
| With fragrance from the locust trees | G |
| And drowsy moan of doves and blur | E |
| Of robin chirps and drove of bees | G |
| With afterhushes of the stir | E |
| Of intermingling sounds and then | C |
| The good wife and the smile of her | E |
| Filling the silences again | C |
| The cricket s call | I |
| And the wee cot | A |
| Dear Lord of all | I |
| Deny me not | A |
| - | |
| I pray not that | A |
| Men tremble at | A |
| My power of place | G |
| And lordly sway | H |
| I only pray for simple grace | G |
| To look my neighbor in the face | G |
| Full honestly from day to day | H |
| Yield me this horny palm to hold | A |
| And I ll not pray | H |
| For gold | A |
| The tanned face garlanded with mirth | J |
| It hath the kingliest smile on earth | J |
| The swart brow diamonded with sweat | A |
| Hath never need of coronet | A |
| And so I reach | K |
| Dear Lord to Thee | L |
| And do beseech | K |
| Thou givest me | L |
| The wee cot and the cricket s chirr | H |
| Love and the glad sweet face of her | H |
James Whitcomb Riley
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