Ike Walton's Prayer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCDCEDCFFCEE EEGGEEAAAHHGGEGECECI AIA AAGHGGHAHAJJAAKLKLHHI 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 |
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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 |
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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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