Thanksgiving Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDEE EFEF GHGH EIEI EJEJ| Let us be thankful not only because | A |
| Since last our universal thanks were told | B |
| We have grown greater in the world's applause | A |
| And fortune's newer smiles surpass the old | B |
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| But thankful for all things that come as alms | C |
| From out the open hand of Providence | D |
| The winter clouds and storms the summer calms | E |
| The sleepless dread the drowse of indolence | E |
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| Let us be thankful thankful for the prayers | E |
| Whose gracious answers were long long delayed | F |
| That they might fall upon us unawares | E |
| And bless us as in greater need we prayed | F |
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| Let us be thankful for the loyal hand | G |
| That love held out in welcome to our own | H |
| When love and only love could understand | G |
| The need of touches we had never known | H |
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| Let us be thankful for the longing eyes | E |
| That gave their secret to us as they wept | I |
| Yet in return found with a sweet surprise | E |
| Love's touch upon their lids and smiling slept | I |
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| And let us too be thankful that the tears | E |
| Of sorrow have not all been drained away | J |
| That through them still for all the coming years | E |
| We may look on the dead face of To day | J |
James Whitcomb Riley
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