To Avis Keene Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBDDCCEEFGGHHIIJKLL M NOOPPQRROSSOROOTTUUV WVWQWQ XVXVVWWYCYCVZVZPPPA2 B2B2C2C2B2B2B2C2OOWO WON RECEIVING A BASKET OF SEA MOSSES | A |
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Thanks for thy gift | B |
Of ocean flowers | C |
Born where the golden drift | B |
Of the slant sunshine falls | D |
Down the green tremulous walls | D |
Of water to the cool still coral bowers | C |
Where under rainbows of perpetual showers | C |
God's gardens of the deep | E |
His patient angels keep | E |
Gladdening the dim strange solitude | F |
With fairest forms and hues and thus | G |
Forever teaching us | G |
The lesson which the many colored skies | H |
The flowers and leaves and painted butterflies | H |
The deer's branched antlers the gay bird that flings | I |
The tropic sunshine from its golden wings | I |
The brightness of the human countenance | J |
Its play of smiles the magic of a glance | K |
Forevermore repeat | L |
In varied tones and sweet | L |
That beauty in and of itself is good | M |
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O kind and generous friend o'er whom | N |
The sunset hues of Time are cast | O |
Painting upon the overpast | O |
And scattered clouds of noonday sorrow | P |
The promise of a fairer morrow | P |
An earnest of the better life to come | Q |
The binding of the spirit broken | R |
The warning to the erring spoken | R |
The comfort of the sad | O |
The eye to see the hand to cull | S |
Of common things the beautiful | S |
The absent heart made glad | O |
By simple gift or graceful token | R |
Of love it needs as daily food | O |
All own one Source and all are good | O |
Hence tracking sunny cove and reach | T |
Where spent waves glimmer up the beach | T |
And toss their gifts of weed and shell | U |
From foamy curve and combing swell | U |
No unbefitting task was thine | V |
To weave these flowers so soft and fair | W |
In unison with His design | V |
Who loveth beauty everywhere | W |
And makes in every zone and clime | Q |
In ocean and in upper air | W |
All things beautiful in their time | Q |
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For not alone in tones of awe and power | X |
He speaks to Inan | V |
The cloudy horror of the thunder shower | X |
His rainbows span | V |
And where the caravan | V |
Winds o'er the desert leaving as in air | W |
The crane flock leaves no trace of passage there | W |
He gives the weary eye | Y |
The palm leaf shadow for the hot noon hours | C |
And on its branches dry | Y |
Calls out the acacia's flowers | C |
And where the dark shaft pierces down | V |
Beneath the mountain roots | Z |
Seen by the miner's lamp alone | V |
The star like crystal shoots | Z |
So where the winds and waves below | P |
The coral branched gardens grow | P |
His climbing weeds and mosses show | P |
Like foliage on each stony bough | A2 |
Of varied hues more strangely gay | B2 |
Than forest leaves in autumn's day | B2 |
Thus evermore | C2 |
On sky and wave and shore | C2 |
An all pervading beauty seems to say | B2 |
God's love and power are one and they | B2 |
Who like the thunder of a sultry day | B2 |
Smite to restore | C2 |
And they who like the gentle wind uplift | O |
The petals of the dew wet flowers and drift | O |
Their perfume on the air | W |
Alike may serve Him each with their own gift | O |
Making their lives a prayer | W |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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