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 yearsA
Beneath a tender rainB
An April rain of smiles and tearsC
My heart is young againD
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The west winds blow and singing lowE
I hear the glad streams runF
The windows of my soul I throwE
Wide open to the sunF
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No longer forward nor behindG
I look in hope or fearH
But grateful take the good I findG
The best of now and hereI
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I plough no more a desert landJ
To harvest weed and tareI
The manna dropping from God's handJ
Rebukes my painful careI
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I break my pilgrim staff I layK
Aside the toiling oarI
The angel sought so far awayK
I welcome at my doorI
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The airs of spring may never playK
Among the ripening cornL
Nor freshness of the flowers of MayK
Blow through the autumn mornL
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Yet shall the blue eyed gentian lookM
Through fringed lids to heavenF
And the pale aster in the brookM
Shall see its image givenF
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The woods shall wear their robes of praiseN
The south wind softly sighO
And sweet calm days in golden hazeN
Melt down the amber skyO
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Not less shall manly deed and wordP
Rebuke an age of wrongQ
The graven flowers that wreathe the swordR
Make not the blade less strongQ
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But smiting hands shall learn to healS
To build as to destroyI
Nor less my heart for others feelS
That I the more enjoyI
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All as God wills who wisely heedsT
To give or to withholdU
And knoweth more of all my needsT
Than all my prayers have toldU
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Enough that blessings undeservedV
Have marked my erring trackW
That wheresoe'er my feet have swervedV
His chastening turned me backW
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That more and more a ProvidenceX
Of love is understoodY
Making the springs of time and senseZ
Sweet with eternal goodY
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That death seems but a covered wayK
Which opens into lightA2
Wherein no blinded child can strayK
Beyond the Father's sightA2
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That care and trial seem at lastB2
Through Memory's sunset airI
Like mountain ranges overpastB2
In purple distance fairI
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That all the jarring notes of lifeC2
Seem blending in a psalmD2
And all the angles of its strifeC2
Slow rounding into calmE2
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And so the shadows fall apartB2
And so the west winds playK
And all the windows of my heartB2
I open to the dayK

John Greenleaf Whittier



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