In The Image Of God Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCC CECE FGFG DHDH IBIB| The falling of a leaf upon thy way | A |
| The flutter of a bird along thy sky | B |
| Thou God to whom the ages are a day | A |
| Ev'n such alas oh ev'n such am I | B |
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| So long the time O Lord when I was not | C |
| And ah so long the time I shall not be | D |
| So strange and small so passing small my lot | C |
| I cry aloud at thine immensity | C |
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| Will not thy garment brush the leaf aside | C |
| Wilt thou eternal look upon the fall | E |
| Of one poor bird Or canst thou stooping wide | C |
| From thy great orbit hearken to my call | E |
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| little child little child and fool | F |
| My planets are my gardens where I go | G |
| At morn and eve at dawning and at cool | F |
| To see my living green and mark it grow | G |
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| I know the leaves that fall from every tree | D |
| I know the birds that nest those gardens through | H |
| I hear the wounded sparrow cry to me | D |
| I note that dying flutter on the blue | H |
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| Hast thou a spot on earth to name it thine | I |
| Does any creature lift to thee a cry | B |
| Behold Thyself my token and my siern | I |
| For ev'n as thou art so my son am I | B |
Margaret Steele Anderson
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