Prayer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACD EFFEGG EHHEGG IEEIJK LMMLMM NDDNGG OMMOPP EQQEMM| I stood upon a hill and watched the death | A |
| Of the day's turmoil Still the glory spread | B |
| Cloud top to cloud top and each rearing head | B |
| Trembled to crimson So a mighty breath | A |
| From some wild Titan in a rising ire | C |
| Might kindle flame in voicing his desire | D |
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| Soft stirred the evening air the pine crowned hills | E |
| Glowed in an answering rapture where the flush | F |
| Grew to a blood drop and the vesper hush | F |
| Moved in my soul while from my life all ills | E |
| Faded and passed away God's voice was there | G |
| And in my heart the silence was a prayer | G |
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| There was a day when to my fearfulness | E |
| Was born a joy when doubt was swept afar | H |
| A shadow and a memory and a star | H |
| Gleamed in my sky more bright for the distress | E |
| The stillness breathed thanksgiving and the air | G |
| Wafted methought the incense of a prayer | G |
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| Heaven sets no bounds of bead roll or appeal | I |
| And when the fiery heart with mute embrace | E |
| Bends tremblingly but for a moment's space | E |
| It needs no words that cry no limbs that kneel | I |
| As meteors flash so in a moment's light | J |
| Life darting forth touches the Infinite | K |
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| All my prayers wordless Nay I can recall | L |
| A night not so long past but that each thought | M |
| Lives at this hour and throbs again unsought | M |
| When Silence broods and Night's chill shadows fall | L |
| Then Darkness' thousand pulses thrilled and stirred | M |
| With the dear grace of a remembered word | M |
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| And I was still thy voice enshrouding me | N |
| Like the strong sweep of ocean breath the power | D |
| Of one resistless thought transformed my hour | D |
| Of love dreams to a fear All hopelessly | N |
| I knew love's impotence and my despair | G |
| Stretched soul hands forth and quivered to a prayer | G |
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| My passionate heart cried out If his dear life | O |
| Through stress of keen temptation merits aught | M |
| Of penance or requital be it wrought | M |
| Upon my life If only through the strife | O |
| Is won the peace through drudgery the gain | P |
| Give him the issue and to me the pain | P |
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| Some day in our soul's course o'er trackless lands | E |
| Swayed oft by adverse winds or swept along | Q |
| In Fate's wild current with the fluttering throng | Q |
| Towards Sin's engulfing maelstrom spirit hands | E |
| Will brace our trembling wings and through the night | M |
| Point and upbear in our last trembling flight | M |
Sophie M. (almon) Hensley
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