Harvest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGH IJIJKLKL MNMNOPQI RSRRRRRR RTRTRURU| See the corn again in ear | A |
| How the fields and valleys smile | B |
| Harvest now is drawing near | C |
| To repay the farmer's toil | D |
| Gracious Lord secure the crop | E |
| Satisfy the poor with food | F |
| In thy mercy is our hope | G |
| We have sinned but thou art good | H |
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| While I view the plenteous grain | I |
| As it ripens on the stalk | J |
| May I not instruction gain | I |
| Helpful to my daily walk | J |
| All this plenty of the field | K |
| Was produced from foreign seeds | L |
| For the earth itself would yield | K |
| Only crops of useless weeds | L |
| - | |
| Though when newly sawn it lay | M |
| Hid awhile beneath the ground | N |
| Some might think it thrown away | M |
| Now a large increase is found | N |
| Though concealed it was not lost | O |
| Though it died it lives again | P |
| Eastern storms and nipping frosts | Q |
| Have opposed its growth in vain | I |
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| Let the praise be all the Lord's | R |
| As the benefit is ours | S |
| He in seasons still affords | R |
| Kindly heat and gentle flow'rs | R |
| By his care the produce thrives | R |
| Waving o'er the furrowed lands | R |
| And when harvest time arrives | R |
| Ready for the reaper stands | R |
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| Thus in barren hearts he sows | R |
| Precious seeds of heav'nly joy | T |
| Sin and hell in vain oppose | R |
| None can grace's crop destroy | T |
| Threatened oft yet still it blooms | R |
| After many changes past | U |
| Death the reaper when he comes | R |
| Finds it fully ripe at last | U |
John Newton
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