Morning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CCDE FFAA GGHH IIJJ KKLL MNOO FFHH PPQQ RRSS TUVV WWRX QKYY EEXX ZZA2B2 C2C2D2D2 MMFF| His compassions fail not They are new every morning | A |
| Lament iii | B |
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| Hues of the rich unfolding morn | C |
| That ere the glorious sun be born | C |
| By some soft touch invisible | D |
| Around his path are taught to swell | E |
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| Thou rustling breeze so fresh and gay | F |
| That dancest forth at opening day | F |
| And brushing by with joyous wing | A |
| Wakenest each little leaf to sing | A |
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| Ye fragrant clouds of dewy steam | G |
| By which deep grove and tangled stream | G |
| Pay for soft rains in season given | H |
| Their tribute to the genial heaven | H |
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| Why waste your treasures of delight | I |
| Upon our thankless joyless sight | I |
| Who day by day to sin awake | J |
| Seldom of Heaven and you partake | J |
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| Oh timely happy timely wise | K |
| Hearts that with rising morn arise | K |
| Eyes that the beam celestial view | L |
| Which evermore makes all things new | L |
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| New every morning is the love | M |
| Our wakening and uprising prove | N |
| Through sleep and darkness safely brought | O |
| Restored to life and power and thought | O |
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| New mercies each returning day | F |
| Hover around us while we pray | F |
| New perils past new sins forgiven | H |
| New thoughts of God new hopes of Heaven | H |
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| If on our daily course our mind | P |
| Be set to hallow all we find | P |
| New treasures still of countless price | Q |
| God will provide for sacrifice | Q |
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| Old friends old scenes will lovelier be | R |
| As more of Heaven in each we see | R |
| Some softening gleam of love and prayer | S |
| Shall dawn on every cross and care | S |
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| As for some dear familiar strain | T |
| Untired we ask and ask again | U |
| Ever in its melodious store | V |
| Finding a spell unheard before | V |
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| Such is the bliss of souls serene | W |
| When they have sworn and stedfast mean | W |
| Counting the cost in all t' espy | R |
| Their God in all themselves deny | X |
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| Oh could we learn that sacrifice | Q |
| What lights would all around us rise | K |
| How would our hearts with wisdom talk | Y |
| Along Life's dullest dreariest walk | Y |
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| We need not bid for cloistered cell | E |
| Our neighbour and our work farewell | E |
| Nor strive to wind ourselves too high | X |
| For sinful man beneath the sky | X |
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| The trivial round the common task | Z |
| Would furnish all we ought to ask | Z |
| Room to deny ourselves a road | A2 |
| To bring us daily nearer God | B2 |
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| Seek we no more content with these | C2 |
| Let present Rapture Comfort Ease | C2 |
| As Heaven shall bid them come and go | D2 |
| The secret this of Rest below | D2 |
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| Only O Lord in Thy dear love | M |
| Fit us for perfect Rest above | M |
| And help us this and every day | F |
| To live more nearly as we pray | F |
John Keble
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