When? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDFGG HIHJKK DLDLGG DMDMMC DNDNOO OPOPGG OQOQMM GRBRSS| If I were told that I must die to morrow | A |
| That the next sun | B |
| Which sinks should bear me past all fear and sorrow | A |
| For any one | B |
| All the fight fought all the short journey through | C |
| What should I do | C |
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| I do not think that I should shrink or falter | D |
| But just go on | E |
| Doing my work nor change nor seek to alter | D |
| Aught that is gone | F |
| But rise and move and love and smile and pray | G |
| For one more day | G |
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| And lying down at night for a last sleeping | H |
| Say in that ear | I |
| Which hearkens ever Lord within Thy keeping | H |
| How should I fear | J |
| And when to morrow brings Thee nearer still | K |
| Do Thou Thy will | K |
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| I might not sleep for awe but peaceful tender | D |
| My soul would lie | L |
| All the night long and when the morning splendor | D |
| Flashed o'er the sky | L |
| I think that I could smile could calmly say | G |
| It is His day | G |
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| But if instead a hand from the blue yonder | D |
| Held out a scroll | M |
| On which my life was writ and I with wonder | D |
| Beheld unroll | M |
| To a long century's end its mystic clew | M |
| What should I do | C |
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| What COULD I do O blessed Guide and Master | D |
| Other than this | N |
| Still to go on as now not slower faster | D |
| Nor fear to miss | N |
| The road although so very long it be | O |
| While led by Thee | O |
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| Step after step feeling Thee close beside me | O |
| Although unseen | P |
| Through thorns through flowers whether the tempest hide Thee | O |
| Or heavens serene | P |
| Assured Thy faithfulness cannot betray | G |
| Thy love decay | G |
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| I may not know my God no hand revealeth | O |
| Thy counsels wise | Q |
| Along the path a deepening shadow stealeth | O |
| No voice replies | Q |
| To all my questioning thought the time to tell | M |
| And it is well | M |
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| Let me keep on abiding and unfearing | G |
| Thy will always | R |
| Through a long century's ripening fruition | B |
| Or a short day's | R |
| Thou canst not come too soon and I can wait | S |
| If thou come late | S |
Susan Coolidge (sarah Chauncey Woolsey)
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