In The Signs Of The Maker Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HHHH IJIK LLLL MMMM EEEN OOOO PPPP QRQS TTTU VWVW XCXC QQQQ YYYY ZA2ZA2 JJJJ CQCQ B2OB2O| I will press the brain to walk | A |
| The eyes will rise to observe | B |
| And the pen will be made to talk | A |
| So the task ends not in a swerve | B |
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| I will voice the worth of His might | C |
| For the deaf to hear and dance | D |
| I will cast to the dim of the night | C |
| So the blind may see at a glance | D |
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| By the force of the mightiest word | E |
| By the wisdom of the omnipotence | F |
| By the nature of the voice unheard | E |
| The tasks of the cosmos commence | G |
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| It is God that makes but is unmade | H |
| Nor in the tasks He seeks for an aid | H |
| Not a second to the effect delayed | H |
| All appear with His commands obeyed | H |
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| Creatures are divers and all in rank | I |
| Few on the land in the air and sea | J |
| And hidden worlds are not in blank | I |
| The whole exist with th' power of 'be' | K |
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| See the heavens in layers on layers | L |
| Seven aloft the earth sans pillars | L |
| Not can men tell of patent barriers | L |
| Praise to Thee O the Best of makers | L |
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| See the terra firma as it laid out wide | M |
| Oiling the wheels for the men to ride | M |
| When the earth and the rain collide | M |
| In cultivation with bounties provide | M |
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| He fashioned the angels as so desired | E |
| Their being with wings by all admired | E |
| And were shaped for the work required | E |
| Worship praise and not a bit retired | N |
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| Espy the flitting avian in the sky | O |
| Like a seraph in the Empyrean fly | O |
| For viands roving th' desert of Dubai | O |
| Nay un luck just on their Lord rely | O |
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| Scan the routine life of the bees | P |
| How they swarm and live on trees | P |
| And as they dine as God decrees | P |
| Lo Honey to man a cure for disease | P |
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| See how complex ye art made from clay | Q |
| Man sanest being endued with senses | R |
| What scale of deeds ye can to repay | Q |
| Or can spend to match from expenses | S |
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| See designs He gives to the tongue | T |
| Most sweet and bitter of the lung | T |
| Yet made for His praise to be sung | T |
| Men for selves it's used to the wrong | U |
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| Ideate the states of the deaf and blind | V |
| Then see the worth of ears and eyes | W |
| Little of thanks do ye give to remind | V |
| Grateful He wants our God Most Wise | W |
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| Ye ever spot Mighty sign in thy sleep | X |
| Nor ever think of thy doom at night | C |
| Aid memoire over which sages weep | X |
| But slumber nay never take His sight | C |
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| See in the alternating night and day | Q |
| The moon the sun as it shines its ray | Q |
| As planned each runs in its pathway | Q |
| None His orders will never disobey | Q |
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| See illness not as grief but a test | Y |
| Loss of life is a sermon for the rest | Y |
| But believers do use this to their best | Y |
| Look to the End from Him to be blest | Y |
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| Is He Who causes dead land to life | Z |
| Not able afterlife to revive your soul | A2 |
| Nay His might is strong and rife | Z |
| And over all things He has control | A2 |
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| I have scoured every nook and cranny | J |
| The task for brain appears of irony | J |
| It seems His blessings are too many | J |
| And the eyes the pen becoming puny | J |
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| I have gathered and known by sight | C |
| His signs exceed the mouth can say | Q |
| And never for what the pen can write | C |
| Nor in extent what the scale can weigh | Q |
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| His signs reflect so great and plain | B2 |
| That the blind could sense and eye | O |
| Our Lord made all these not in vain | B2 |
| So which of His favours do ye deny | O |
Kehinde Bashir Akinola
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