My Childhood God Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFGFHIHI JKJKLMLM NHNHOBOB| When 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 |
| - | |
| 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 William Service
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