My Psalm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFEF GHGI JIJI KIKI KLKL MFMF NONO PQRQ SISI TUTU VWVW XYZY KA2KA2 B2IB2I C2D2C2E2 B2KB2K| I mourn no more my vanished years | A |
| Beneath a tender rain | B |
| An April rain of smiles and tears | C |
| My heart is young again | D |
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| The west winds blow and singing low | E |
| I hear the glad streams run | F |
| The windows of my soul I throw | E |
| Wide open to the sun | F |
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| No longer forward nor behind | G |
| I look in hope or fear | H |
| But grateful take the good I find | G |
| The best of now and here | I |
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| I plough no more a desert land | J |
| To harvest weed and tare | I |
| The manna dropping from God's hand | J |
| Rebukes my painful care | I |
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| I break my pilgrim staff I lay | K |
| Aside the toiling oar | I |
| The angel sought so far away | K |
| I welcome at my door | I |
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| The airs of spring may never play | K |
| Among the ripening corn | L |
| Nor freshness of the flowers of May | K |
| Blow through the autumn morn | L |
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| Yet shall the blue eyed gentian look | M |
| Through fringed lids to heaven | F |
| And the pale aster in the brook | M |
| Shall see its image given | F |
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| The woods shall wear their robes of praise | N |
| The south wind softly sigh | O |
| And sweet calm days in golden haze | N |
| Melt down the amber sky | O |
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| Not less shall manly deed and word | P |
| Rebuke an age of wrong | Q |
| The graven flowers that wreathe the sword | R |
| Make not the blade less strong | Q |
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| But smiting hands shall learn to heal | S |
| To build as to destroy | I |
| Nor less my heart for others feel | S |
| That I the more enjoy | I |
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| All as God wills who wisely heeds | T |
| To give or to withhold | U |
| And knoweth more of all my needs | T |
| Than all my prayers have told | U |
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| Enough that blessings undeserved | V |
| Have marked my erring track | W |
| That wheresoe'er my feet have swerved | V |
| His chastening turned me back | W |
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| That more and more a Providence | X |
| Of love is understood | Y |
| Making the springs of time and sense | Z |
| Sweet with eternal good | Y |
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| That death seems but a covered way | K |
| Which opens into light | A2 |
| Wherein no blinded child can stray | K |
| Beyond the Father's sight | A2 |
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| That care and trial seem at last | B2 |
| Through Memory's sunset air | I |
| Like mountain ranges overpast | B2 |
| In purple distance fair | I |
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| That all the jarring notes of life | C2 |
| Seem blending in a psalm | D2 |
| And all the angles of its strife | C2 |
| Slow rounding into calm | E2 |
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| And so the shadows fall apart | B2 |
| And so the west winds play | K |
| And all the windows of my heart | B2 |
| I open to the day | K |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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