My Trust Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BCB DDD EEE AAA EEE FGF HHI EEE FFF EEE BBB| A picture memory brings to me | A |
| I look across the years and see | A |
| Myself beside my mother's knee | A |
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| I feel her gentle hand restrain | B |
| My selfish moods and know again | C |
| A child's blind sense of wrong and pain | B |
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| But wiser now a man gray grown | D |
| My childhood's needs are better known | D |
| My mother's chastening love I own | D |
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| Gray grown but in our Father's sight | E |
| A child still groping for the light | E |
| To read His works and ways aright | E |
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| I wait in His good time to see | A |
| That as my mother dealt with me | A |
| So with His children dealeth He | A |
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| I bow myself beneath His hand | E |
| That pain itself was wisely planned | E |
| I feel and partly understand | E |
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| The joy that comes in sorrow's guise | F |
| The sweet pains of self sacrifice | G |
| I would not have them otherwise | F |
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| And what were life and death if sin | H |
| Knew not the dread rebuke within | H |
| The pang of merciful discipline | I |
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| Not with thy proud despair of old | E |
| Crowned stoic of Rome's noblest mould | E |
| Pleasure and pain alike I hold | E |
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| I suffer with no vain pretence | F |
| Of triumph over flesh and sense | F |
| Yet trust the grievous providence | F |
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| How dark soe'er it seems may tend | E |
| By ways I cannot comprehend | E |
| To some unguessed benignant end | E |
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| That every loss and lapse may gain | B |
| The clear aired heights by steps of pain | B |
| And never cross is borne in vain | B |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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