Adjustment Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDDDDEFFEDD GDDHIJJIKLLMDD| The tree of Faith its bare dry boughs must shed | A |
| That nearer heaven the living ones may climb | B |
| The false must fail though from our shores of time | B |
| The old lament be heard 'Great Pan is dead ' | C |
| That wail is Error's from his high place hurled | D |
| This sharp recoil is Evil undertrod | D |
| Our time's unrest an angel sent of God | D |
| Troubling with life the waters of the world | D |
| Even as they list the winds of the Spirit blow | E |
| To turn or break our century rusted vanes | F |
| Sands shift and waste the rock alone remains | F |
| Where led of Heaven the strong tides come and go | E |
| And storm clouds rent by thunderbolt and wind | D |
| Leave free of mist the permanent stars behind | D |
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| Therefore I trust although to outward sense | G |
| Both true and false seem shaken I will hold | D |
| With newer light my reverence for the old | D |
| And calmly wait the births of Providence | H |
| No gain is lost the clear eyed saints look down | I |
| Untroubled on the wreck of schemes and creeds | J |
| Love yet remains its rosary of good deeds | J |
| Counting in task field and o'erpeopled town | I |
| Truth has charmed life the Inward Word survives | K |
| And day by day its revelation brings | L |
| Faith hope and charity whatsoever things | L |
| Which cannot be shaken stand Still holy lives | M |
| Reveal the Christ of whom the letter told | D |
| And the new gospel verifies the old | D |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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