Wilt Thou Harass A Driven Leaf? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CCCC DEDE FCFC GFGF HIHI CACA JKJK| O harass not a driven leaf | A |
| Nor stubble dry in wrath pursue | B |
| A life so brief load not with grief | A |
| Nor with thine arrow pierce me through | B |
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| The fragile leaf by tempest tost | C |
| Is scarcely worth a passing thought | C |
| The brook is crossed and then is lost | C |
| There let it lie a thing of naught | C |
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| The stubble dry ne'er grows again | D |
| To golden grain it gave its sap | E |
| It died and then 'twas left by men | D |
| To rot betimes or some mishap | E |
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| Am I not like the stubble dry | F |
| And fragile leaf by tempest strewed | C |
| Must I not die then tell me why | F |
| A thing so frail is thus pursued | C |
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| A voice replies Thy life is frail | G |
| Much like the leaf and stubble dry | F |
| Thy strength must fail and as the gale | G |
| Bears them away so must thou die | F |
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| But live again in bliss or pain | H |
| For death to man does not end all | I |
| Life is not vain if thou but gain | H |
| A home in heaven when I shall call | I |
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| To fit thy soul for endless rest | C |
| I harass now the driven leaf | A |
| But though sore pressed and grief distressed | C |
| The life of sorrow will be brief | A |
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| And when released from suffering clay | J |
| Thy blood bought spirit shall arise | K |
| To endless day Then thou shalt say | J |
| The ways of God are good and wise | K |
Joseph Horatio Chant
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