Faith Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGI JKJL| When I see truth do I seek truth | A |
| Only that I may things denote | B |
| And rich by striving deck my youth | A |
| As with a vain unusual coat | B |
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| Or seek I truth for other ends | C |
| That she in other hearts may stir | D |
| That even my most familiar friends | C |
| May turn from me to look on her | D |
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| So I this day myself was asking | E |
| Out of the window skies were blue | F |
| And Thames was in the sunlight basking | E |
| My thoughts coiled inwards like a screw | F |
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| I watched them anxious for a while | G |
| Then quietly as I did watch | H |
| Spread in my soul a sudden smile | G |
| I knew that no firm thing they'd catch | I |
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| And I remembered if I leapt | J |
| Upon the bosom of the wind | K |
| It would sustain me question slept | J |
| I felt that I had almost sinned | L |
John Collings Squire, Sir
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