The Resignation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGH IJIJ KLKL CFCF MNMN DODO| O God whose thunder shakes the sky | A |
| Whose eye this atom globe surveys | B |
| To thee my only rock I fly | A |
| Thy mercy in thy justice praise | B |
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| The mystic mazes of thy will | C |
| The shadows of celestial light | D |
| Are past the pow'r of human skill | C |
| But what th' Eternal acts is right | D |
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| O teach me in the trying hour | E |
| When anguish swells the dewy tear | F |
| To still my sorrows own thy pow'r | G |
| Thy goodness love thy justice fear | H |
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| If in this bosom aught but Thee | I |
| Encroaching sought a boundless sway | J |
| Omniscience could the danger see | I |
| And Mercy look the cause away | J |
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| Then why my soul dost thou complain | K |
| Why drooping seek the dark recess | L |
| Shake off the melancholy chain | K |
| For God created all to bless | L |
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| But ah my breast is human still | C |
| The rising sigh the falling tear | F |
| My languid vitals' feeble rill | C |
| The sickness of my soul declare | F |
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| But yet with fortitude resigned | M |
| I'll thank th' inflicter of the blow | N |
| Forbid the sigh compose my mind | M |
| Nor let the gush of mis'ry flow | N |
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| The gloomy mantle of the night | D |
| Which on my sinking spirit steals | O |
| Will vanish at the morning light | D |
| Which God my East my sun reveals | O |
Thomas Chatterton
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