Sometime Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL MNMOPFPF QRQRSTST| Sometime when all life's lessons have been learned | A |
| And sun and stars forevermore have set | B |
| The things which our weak judgements here have spurned | A |
| The things so'er which we grieved with lashes wet | B |
| Will flash before us out of life's dark night | C |
| As stars shine most in deeper tints of blue | D |
| And we shall see how all God's plans are right | C |
| And how what seemed reproof was love most true | D |
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| And we shall see how while we frown and sigh | E |
| God's plans go on as best for you and me | F |
| How when we called He heeded not our cry | E |
| Because His wisdom to the end could see | F |
| And e'en as prudent parents disallow | G |
| Too much of sweet to craving babyhood | H |
| So God perhaps is keeping from us now | G |
| Life's sweetest things because it seemeth good | H |
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| And if sometimes commingled with life's wine | I |
| We find the wormwood and rebel and shrink | J |
| Be sure a wiser hand than yours or mine | I |
| Pours out the potion for our lips to drink | J |
| And if some friend you love is lying low | K |
| Where human kisses cannot reach his face | L |
| Oh do not blame the loving Father so | K |
| But wear your sorrow with obedient grace | L |
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| And you shall shortly know that lengthened breath | M |
| Is not the sweetest gift God sends His friends | N |
| And that sometimes the sable pull of death | M |
| Conceals the fairest boon His love can send | O |
| If we could push ajar the gates of life | P |
| And stand within and all God's workings see | F |
| We could interpret all this doubt and strife | P |
| And for each mystery could find a key | F |
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| But not today Then be content poor heart | Q |
| God's plans like lilies pure and white unfold | R |
| We must not tear the close shut leaves apart | Q |
| Time will reveal the chalices of gold | R |
| And if through patient toil we reach the land | S |
| Where tired feet with sandals loosed may rest | T |
| When we shall clearly see and understand | S |
| I think we will say God knew the best | T |
May Riley Smith
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