Patience Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDBEBBBBFCF A GCGCHIHJGGGBHB A KCKCLFMFKKKFNF O BBBBOFOFBPPLPL O MQRSRTRTUUUFTF| I | A |
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| I saw how the patient Sun | B |
| Hasted untiringly | C |
| The self same old race to run | B |
| Never aspiringly | C |
| Seeking some other road | D |
| Through the blue heaven | B |
| Than the one path which God | E |
| Long since had given | B |
| And I said Patient Sun | B |
| Teach me my race to run | B |
| Even as thine is done | B |
| Steadfastly ever | F |
| Weakly impatiently | C |
| Wandering never | F |
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| II | A |
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| I saw how the patient Earth | G |
| Sat uncomplainingly | C |
| While in his boisterous mirth | G |
| Winter disdainingly | C |
| Mocked at her steadfast trust | H |
| That from its icy chain | I |
| Spring her imprisoned dust | H |
| Soon would release again | J |
| And I said Patient Earth | G |
| Biding thy hour of dearth | G |
| Waiting the voice of mirth | G |
| Soon to re waken | B |
| Teach me like thee to trust | H |
| Steadfast unshaken | B |
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| III | A |
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| I saw how the patient Stream | K |
| Hasted unceasingly | C |
| Mindless of shade or gleam | K |
| Onward increasingly | C |
| Widening deepening | L |
| Its rocky bed ever | F |
| That it might thus take in | M |
| River by river | F |
| And I said Patient Stream | K |
| Hasting through shade and gleam | K |
| Careless of noontide beam | K |
| Loitering never | F |
| So teach thou me to press | N |
| Onward forever | F |
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| IV | O |
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| I saw how the Holiest One | B |
| Sat in the Heaven | B |
| Watching each earth born son | B |
| Sin tossed and driven | B |
| Watching war's mad'ning strife | O |
| Brother 'gainst brother | F |
| Reckless of love and life | O |
| Slaying each other | F |
| And I said Patient One | B |
| On thy exalted throne | P |
| Never impatient grown | P |
| With our dark sinning | L |
| Though all its depth thou'st known | P |
| From the beginning | L |
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| V | O |
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| Though thy fair Earth has been | M |
| Blood dyed for ages | Q |
| Though in her valleys green | R |
| Carnage still rages | S |
| Thou o'er whose brow serene | R |
| Calmest and Holiest | T |
| Angel has never seen | R |
| E'en toward Earth's lowliest | T |
| Shadows impatient sweep | U |
| Teach me like thee to keep | U |
| In my soul still and deep | U |
| Wavering never | F |
| Patience a steady light | T |
| Burning forever | F |
Pamela S. Vining, (j. C. Yule)
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