The Promise Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLML NONO P| NOT charity we ask | A |
| Nor yet thy gift refuse | B |
| Please thy light fancy with the easy task | A |
| Only to look and choose | B |
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| The little heeded toy | C |
| That wins thy treasured gold | D |
| May be the dearest memory holiest joy | C |
| Of coming years untold | D |
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| Heaven rains on every heart | E |
| But there its showers divide | F |
| The drops of mercy choosing as they part | E |
| The dark or glowing side | F |
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| One kindly deed may turn | G |
| The fountain of thy soul | H |
| To love s sweet day star that shall o er thee burn | G |
| Long as its currents roll | H |
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| The pleasures thou hast planned | I |
| Where shall their memory be | J |
| When the white angel with the freezing hand | I |
| Shall sit and watch by thee | J |
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| Living thou dost not live | K |
| If mercy s spring run dry | L |
| What Heaven has lent thee wilt thou freely give | M |
| Dying thou shalt not die | L |
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| HE promised even so | N |
| To thee his lips repeat | O |
| Behold the tears that soothed thy sister s woe | N |
| Have washed thy Master s feet | O |
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| March | P |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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