A Thanksgiving Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIHJ DKDK LMNM OPOP QRQR STUT| Lord in this dust Thy sovereign voice | A |
| First quicken'd love divine | B |
| I am all Thine Thy care and choice | A |
| My very praise is Thine | B |
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| I praise Thee while Thy providence | C |
| In childhood frail I trace | D |
| For blessings given ere dawning sense | E |
| Could seek or scan Thy grace | D |
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| Blessings in boyhood's marvelling hour | F |
| Bright dreams and fancyings strange | G |
| Blessings when reason's awful power | F |
| Gave thought a bolder range | G |
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| Blessings of friends which to my door | H |
| Unask'd unhoped have come | I |
| And choicer still a countless store | H |
| Of eager smiles at home | J |
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| Yet Lord in memory's fondest place | D |
| I shrine those seasons sad | K |
| When looking up I saw Thy face | D |
| In kind austereness clad | K |
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| I would not miss one sigh or tear | L |
| Heart pang or throbbing brow | M |
| Sweet was the chastisement severe | N |
| And sweet its memory now | M |
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| Yes let the fragrant scars abide | O |
| Love tokens in Thy stead | P |
| Faint shadows of the spear pierced side | O |
| And thorn encompass'd head | P |
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| And such Thy tender force be still | Q |
| When self would swerve or stray | R |
| Shaping to truth the froward will | Q |
| Along Thy narrow way | R |
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| Deny me wealth far far remove | S |
| The lure of power or name | T |
| Hope thrives in straits in weakness love | U |
| And faith in this world's shame | T |
John Henry Newman
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