At Eventide Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCCBBBDDEFGGHIIIIIJJ| A | |
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| Poor and inadequate the shadow play | B |
| Of gain and loss of waking and of dream | C |
| Against life's solemn background needs must seem | C |
| At this late hour Yet not unthankfully | B |
| I call to mind the fountains by the way | B |
| The breath of flowers the bird song on the spray | B |
| Dear friends sweet human loves the joy of giving | D |
| And of receiving the great boon of living | D |
| In grand historic years when Liberty | E |
| Had need of word and work quick sympathies | F |
| For all who fail and suffer song's relief | G |
| Nature's uncloying loveliness and chief | G |
| The kind restraining hand of Providence | H |
| The inward witness the assuring sense | I |
| Of an Eternal Good which overlies | I |
| The sorrow of the world Love which outlives | I |
| All sin and wrong Compassion which forgives | I |
| To the uttermost and Justice whose clear eyes | I |
| Through lapse and failure look to the intent | J |
| And judge our frailty by the life we meant | J |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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