Requirement Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDCEFFEGG| We live by Faith but Faith is not the slave | A |
| Of text and legend Reason's voice and God's | B |
| Nature's and Duty's never are at odds | B |
| What asks our Father of His children save | A |
| Justice and mercy and humility | C |
| A reasonable service of good deeds | D |
| Pure living tenderness to human needs | D |
| Reverence and trust and prayer for light to see | C |
| The Master's footprints in our daily ways | E |
| No knotted scourge nor sacrificial knife | F |
| But the calm beauty of an ordered life | F |
| Whose very breathing is unworded praise | E |
| A life that stands as all true lives have stood | G |
| Firm rooted in the faith that God is Good | G |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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