A Child's Evening Prayer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGAH| Ere on my bed my limbs I lay | A |
| God grant me grace my prayers to say | A |
| O God preserve my mother dear | B |
| In strength and health for many a year | B |
| And O preserve my father too | C |
| And may I pay him reverence due | C |
| And may I my best thoughts employ | D |
| To be my parents' hope and joy | D |
| And O preserve my brothers both | E |
| From evil doings and from sloth | E |
| And may we always love each other | F |
| Our friends our father and our mother | F |
| And still O Lord to me impart | G |
| An innocent and grateful heart | G |
| That after my last steep I may | A |
| Awake to thy eternal day Amen | H |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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