This Gloomy Northern Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCAB DBDEEB FGHHFG AIAJJI KDLLKD MNMOON| THIS gloomy northern day | A |
| Or this yet gloomier night | B |
| Has moved a something high | C |
| In my cold heart and I | C |
| That do not often pray | A |
| Would pray to night | B |
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| And first on Thee I call | D |
| For bread O God of might | B |
| Enough of bread for all | D |
| That through the famished town | E |
| Cold hunger may lie down | E |
| With none to night | B |
| - | |
| I pray for hope no less | F |
| Strong sinewed hope O Lord | G |
| That to the struggling young | H |
| May preach with brazen tongue | H |
| Stout Labour high success | F |
| And bright reward | G |
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| And last O Lord I pray | A |
| For hearts resigned and bold | I |
| To trudge the dusty way | A |
| Hearts stored with song and joke | J |
| And warmer than a cloak | J |
| Against the cold | I |
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| If nothing else he had | K |
| He who has this has all | D |
| This comforts under pain | L |
| This through the stinging rain | L |
| Keeps ragamuffin glad | K |
| Behind the wall | D |
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| This makes the sanded inn | M |
| A palace for a Prince | N |
| And this when griefs begin | M |
| And cruel fate annoys | O |
| Can bring to mind the joys | O |
| Of ages since | N |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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