Fifth Sunday After Trinity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGHI JKJK LMLN OBOB PQPQ RSRS TUTU VWVW XYXY ZA2ZA2 B2C2B2C2 D2E2D2E2 F2G2F2G2 H2PWP F2I2F2I2| And Simon answering said unto Him Master we have toiled | A |
| all the night and have taken nothing nevertheless at Thy | B |
| word I will let down the net And when they had this done | C |
| they inclosed a great multitude of fishes and their net | D |
| brake St Luke v | E |
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| The livelong night we've toiled in vain | F |
| But at Thy gracious word | G |
| I will let down the net again | H |
| Do Thou Thy will O Lord | I |
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| So spake the weary fisher spent | J |
| With bootless darkling toil | K |
| Yet on his Master's bidding bent | J |
| For love and not for spoil | K |
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| So day by day and week by week | L |
| In sad and weary thought | M |
| They muse whom God hath set to seek | L |
| The souls His Christ hath bought | N |
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| For not upon a tranquil lake | O |
| Our pleasant task we ply | B |
| Where all along our glistening wake | O |
| The softest moonbeams lie | B |
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| Where rippling wave and dashing oar | P |
| Our midnight chant attend | Q |
| Or whispering palm leaves from the shore | P |
| With midnight silence blend | Q |
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| Sweet thoughts of peace ye may not last | R |
| Too soon some ruder sound | S |
| Calls us from where ye soar so fast | R |
| Back to our earthly round | S |
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| For wildest storms our ocean sweep | T |
| No anchor but the Cross | U |
| Might hold and oft the thankless deep | T |
| Turns all our toil to loss | U |
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| Full many a dreary anxious hour | V |
| We watch our nets alone | W |
| In drenching spray and driving shower | V |
| And hear the night bird's moan | W |
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| At morn we look and nought is there | X |
| Sad dawn of cheerless day | Y |
| Who then from pining and despair | X |
| The sickening heart can stay | Y |
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| There is a stay and we are strong | Z |
| Our Master is at hand | A2 |
| To cheer our solitary song | Z |
| And guide us to the strand | A2 |
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| In His own time but yet a while | B2 |
| Our bark at sea must ride | C2 |
| Cast after cast by force or guile | B2 |
| All waters must be tried | C2 |
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| By blameless guile or gentle force | D2 |
| As when He deigned to teach | E2 |
| The lode star of our Christian course | D2 |
| Upon this sacred beach | E2 |
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| Should e'er thy wonder working grace | F2 |
| Triumph by our weak arm | G2 |
| Let not our sinful fancy trace | F2 |
| Aught human in the charm | G2 |
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| To our own nets ne'er bow we down | H2 |
| Lest on the eternal shore | P |
| The angels while oar draught they own | W |
| Reject us evermore | P |
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| Or if for our unworthiness | F2 |
| Toil prayer and watching fail | I2 |
| In disappointment Thou canst bless | F2 |
| So love at heart prevail | I2 |
John Keble
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