Vesta Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKCK LMNM| O Christ of God whose life and death | A |
| Our own have reconciled | B |
| Most quietly most tenderly | C |
| Take home thy star named child | B |
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| Thy grace is in her patient eyes | D |
| Thy words are on her tongue | E |
| The very silence round her seems | F |
| As if the angels sung | E |
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| Her smile is as a listening child's | G |
| Who hears its mother's call | H |
| The lilies of Thy perfect peace | I |
| About her pillow fall | H |
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| She leans from out our clinging arms | J |
| To rest herself in Thine | K |
| Alone to Thee dear Lord can we | C |
| Our well beloved resign | K |
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| O less for her than for ourselves | L |
| We bow our heads and pray | M |
| Her setting star like Bethlehem's | N |
| To Thee shall point the way | M |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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