Teaching From The Stars Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC ADADEE FBFBAA GHGGII FBFBJJ KLKLM| Stars that on your wondrous way | A |
| Travel through the evening sky | B |
| Is there nothing you can say | A |
| To such a little child as I | B |
| Tell me for I long to know | C |
| Who has made you sparkle so | C |
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| Yes methinks I hear you say | A |
| 'Child of mortal race attend | D |
| While we run our wondrous way | A |
| Listen we would be your friend | D |
| Teaching you that name Divine | E |
| By whose mighty word we shine | E |
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| 'Child as truly as we roll | F |
| Through the dark and distant sky | B |
| You have an immortal soul | F |
| Born to live when we shall die | B |
| Suns and planets pass away | A |
| Spirits never can decay | A |
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| 'When some thousand years at most | G |
| All their little time have spent | H |
| One by one our sparkling host | G |
| Shall forsake the firmament | G |
| We shall from our glory fall | I |
| You must live beyond us all | I |
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| 'Yes and God who bade us roll | F |
| God who hung us in the sky | B |
| Stoops to watch an infant's soul | F |
| With a condescending eye | B |
| And esteems it dearer far | J |
| More in value than a star | J |
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| 'Oh then while your breath is given | K |
| Let it rise in fervant prayer | L |
| And beseech the God of heaven | K |
| To receive your spirit there | L |
| Like a living star to blaze | M |
| Ever to your Saviour's praise ' | - |
Jane Taylor
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