Distraction Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD CECE FGFG HIHI FAFA| When swarms of small distractions harry | A |
| Devotion like the gnats that fly | B |
| Till prayers are cold and customary | A |
| Not such as please Thee Heaven high | B |
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| When I forget for all my striving | C |
| Thy presence holy and august | D |
| Be Thou not angry but forgiving | C |
| To her Thou madest from the dust | D |
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| Say to Thyself This mortal being | C |
| So deaf so blind so prone to sin | E |
| Has glimpses of Me without seeing | C |
| The places where the nails went in | E |
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| Say Through the crusts of earth My creature | F |
| Perceives Me hails Me Lord above | G |
| Rumours of the lost innocence reach her | F |
| With full assurance of My love | G |
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| Say Of all marvels I have fashioned | H |
| Is none more wonderful and new | I |
| As that this thing should go impassioned | H |
| For heights beyond her mortal view | I |
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| What though her mind should play and ponder | F |
| On small things meet for such as she | A |
| O love O loyalty O wonder | F |
| That in the darkness gropes for Me | A |
Katharine Tynan
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