Second Sunday After Christmas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEDEFDDD GDGDDDDD DHDHIIIH JKJKLLLK MCMCNNNC LOLOPPPO CQCQDDDQ RSTSDDDSWhen the poor and needy seek water and there is none and | A |
their tongue faileth for thirst I the Lord will hear them | B |
I the God of Israel will not forsake them Isaiah xli | C |
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And wilt thou hear the fevered heart | D |
To Thee in silence cry | E |
And as th' inconstant wildfires dart | D |
Out of the restless eye | E |
Wilt thou forgive the wayward though | F |
By kindly woes yet half untaught | D |
A Saviours right so dearly bought | D |
That Hope should never die | D |
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Thou wilt for many a languid prayer | G |
Has reached Thee from the wild | D |
Since the lorn mother wandering there | G |
Cast down her fainting child | D |
Then stole apart to weep and die | D |
Nor knew an angel form was nigh | D |
To show soft waters gushing by | D |
And dewy shadows mild | D |
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Thou wilt for Thou art Israel's God | D |
And Thine unwearied arm | H |
Is ready yet with Moses' rod | D |
The hidden rill to charm | H |
Out of the dry unfathomed deep | I |
Of sands that lie in lifeless sleep | I |
Save when the scorching whirlwinds heap | I |
Their waves in rude alarm | H |
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These moments of wild wrath are Thine | J |
Thine too the drearier hour | K |
When o'er th' horizon's silent line | J |
Fond hopeless fancies cower | K |
And on the traveller's listless way | L |
Rises and sets th' unchanging day | L |
No cloud in heaven to slake its ray | L |
On earth no sheltering bower | K |
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Thou wilt be there and not forsake | M |
To turn the bitter pool | C |
Into a bright and breezy lake | M |
This throbbing brow to cool | C |
Till loft awhile with Thee alone | N |
The wilful heart be fain to own | N |
That He by whom our bright hours shone | N |
Our darkness best may rule | C |
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The scent of water far away | L |
Upon the breeze is flung | O |
The desert pelican to day | L |
Securely leaves her young | O |
Reproving thankless man who fears | P |
To journey on a few lone years | P |
Where on the sand Thy step appears | P |
Thy crown in sight is hung | O |
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Thou who did sit on Jacob's well | C |
The weary hour of noon | Q |
The languid pulses Thou canst tell | C |
The nerveless spirit tune | Q |
Thou from Whose cross in anguish burst | D |
The cry that owned Thy dying thirst | D |
To Thee we turn our Last and First | D |
Our Sun and soothing Moon | Q |
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From darkness here and dreariness | R |
We ask not full repose | S |
Only be Thou at hand to bless | T |
Our trial hour of woes | S |
Is not the pilgrim's toil o'erpaid | D |
By the clear rill and palmy shade | D |
And see we not up Earth's dark glade | D |
The gate of Heaven unclose | S |
John Keble
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