First-day Thoughts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBBCDDEEFCCCFCGGHG HH| In calm and cool and silence once again | A |
| I find my old accustomed place among | B |
| My brethren where perchance no human tongue | B |
| Shall utter words where never hymn is sung | B |
| Nor deep toned organ blown nor censer swung | B |
| Nor dim light falling through the pictured pane | C |
| There syllabled by silence let me hear | D |
| The still small voice which reached the prophet's ear | D |
| Read in my heart a still diviner law | E |
| Than Israel's leader on his tables saw | E |
| There let me strive with each besetting sin | F |
| Recall my wandering fancies and restrain | C |
| The sore disquiet of a restless brain | C |
| And as the path of duty is made plain | C |
| May grace be given that I may walk therein | F |
| Not like the hireling for his selfish gain | C |
| With backward glances and reluctant tread | G |
| Making a merit of his coward dread | G |
| But cheerful in the light around me thrown | H |
| Walking as one to pleasant service led | G |
| Doing God's will as if it were my own | H |
| Yet trusting not in mine but in His strength alone | H |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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