My Childhood God Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFGFHIHI JKJKLMLM NHNHOBOBWhen I was small the Lord appeared | A |
Unto my mental eye | B |
A gentle giant with a beard | A |
Who homed up in the sky | B |
But soon that vasty vision blurred | C |
And faded in the end | D |
Till God is just another word | C |
I cannot comprehend | D |
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I envy those of simple faith | E |
Who bend the votive knee | F |
Who do not doubt divinely death | G |
Will set their spirits free | F |
Oh could I be like you and you | H |
Sweet souls who scan this line | I |
And by dim altar worship too | H |
A Deity Divine | I |
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Alas Mid passions that appal | J |
I ask with bitter woe | K |
Is God responsible for all | J |
Our horror here below | K |
He made the hero and the saint | L |
But did He also make | M |
The cannibal in battle paint | L |
The shark and rattlesnake | M |
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If I believe in God I should | N |
Believe in Satan too | H |
The one the source of all our good | N |
The other of our rue | H |
Oh could I second childhood gain | O |
For then it might be I | B |
Once more would see that vision plain | O |
Fond Father in the sky | B |
Robert Service
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