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 B2KB2KI 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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