Gratitude Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACC DEEDFG HIIHJJ HKLHMM NOONPP QRRQSS OQQOTT UOOVRR| There are some things dear Friend are easier far | A |
| To say in written words than when we sit | B |
| Eye answering eye or hand to hand close knit | B |
| Not that there is between us any bar | A |
| Of shyness or reserve the day is past | C |
| For that and utter trust has come at last | C |
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| Only when shut alone and safe inside | D |
| These four white walls hearing no sound except | E |
| Our own heart beatings silences have crept | E |
| Stealthily round us as the incoming tide | D |
| Quiet and unperceived creeps ever on | F |
| Till mound and pebble rock and reef are gone | G |
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| Or out on the green hillside even there | H |
| There is a hush and words and thoughts are still | I |
| For the trees speak and myriad voices fill | I |
| With wondrous echoes all the waiting air | H |
| We listen and in listening must forget | J |
| Our own hearts' murmur and our spirits' fret | J |
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| Even our joys thou knowest when the air | H |
| Is full to overflowing with the sense | K |
| Of hope fulfilled and passion's vehemence | L |
| There is no place for words we do not dare | H |
| To break Love's stillness even though the power | M |
| Were ours by speech to lengthen out the hour | M |
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| But here in quietness I can recall | N |
| All I would tell thee how thou art to me | O |
| Impulse and inspiration and with thee | O |
| I can but smile though all my idols fall | N |
| I wait my meed as others who have known | P |
| Patience till to their utmost stature grown | P |
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| As when the heavens are draped in gloomy gray | Q |
| And earth is tremulous with a vague unrest | R |
| A glory fills the tender troubled West | R |
| That glads the closing of November's day | Q |
| So breaks in sun smiles my beclouded sky | S |
| When day is over and I know thee nigh | S |
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| Thou art so much all this and more to me | O |
| And what am I to thee Can I repay | Q |
| These many gifts Is there no royal way | Q |
| Of recompense so I may proudly see | O |
| The man my heart delights to praise renowned | T |
| For wealth and honor and with rapture crowned | T |
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| Ah though there is no recompense in love | U |
| Yet have I paid thee given these gifts to thee | O |
| Joy riches worship Thou hast joy in me | O |
| Is it not so Beloved Who shall prove | V |
| No worship of thee by my soul confessed | R |
| And riches Ah a wealth of love is best | R |
Sophie M. (almon) Hensley
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