Rhymed Distichs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDDBEEBFFBGGHHB IIJJ| WHO trusts in God | A |
| Fears not His rod | A |
| B | |
| THIS truth may be by all believed | C |
| Whom God deceives is well deceived | C |
| B | |
| HOW when and where No answer comes from high | D |
| Thou wait'st for the Because and yet thou ask'st not Why | D |
| B | |
| IF the whole is ever to gladden thee | E |
| That whole in the smallest thing thou must see | E |
| B | |
| WATER its living strength first shows | F |
| When obstacles its course oppose | F |
| B | |
| TRANSPARENT appears the radiant air | G |
| Though steel and stone in its breast it may bear | G |
| At length they'll meet with fiery power | H |
| And metal and stones on the earth will shower | H |
| B | |
| WHATE'ER a living flame may surround | I |
| No longer is shapeless or earthly bound | I |
| 'Tis now invisible flies from earth | J |
| And hastens on high to the place of its birth | J |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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