My Childhood God Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFGFHIHI JKJKLMLM NHNHOBOB

When I was small the Lord appearedA
Unto my mental eyeB
A gentle giant with a beardA
Who homed up in the skyB
But soon that vasty vision blurredC
And faded in the endD
Till God is just another wordC
I cannot comprehendD
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I envy those of simple faithE
Who bend the votive kneeF
Who do not doubt divinely deathG
Will set their spirits freeF
Oh could I be like you and youH
Sweet souls who scan this lineI
And by dim altar worship tooH
A Deity DivineI
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Alas Mid passions that appalJ
I ask with bitter woeK
Is God responsible for allJ
Our horror here belowK
He made the hero and the saintL
But did He also makeM
The cannibal in battle paintL
The shark and rattlesnakeM
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If I believe in God I shouldN
Believe in Satan tooH
The one the source of all our goodN
The other of our rueH
Oh could I second childhood gainO
For then it might be IB
Once more would see that vision plainO
Fond Father in the skyB

Robert Service



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