The Bedridden Peasant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGHG IJIJ KLKL MIMI NONO CPCP| To An Unknowing God | A |
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| Much wonder I here long low laid | B |
| That this dead wall should be | C |
| Betwixt the Maker and the made | B |
| Between Thyself and me | C |
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| For say one puts a child to nurse | D |
| He eyes it now and then | E |
| To know if better 'tis or worse | D |
| And if it mourn and when | E |
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| But Thou Lord giv'st us men our clay | F |
| In helpless bondage thus | G |
| To Time and Chance and seem'st straightway | H |
| To think no more of us | G |
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| That some disaster cleft Thy scheme | I |
| And tore us wide apart | J |
| So that no cry can cross I deem | I |
| For Thou art mild of heart | J |
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| And would'st not shape and shut us in | K |
| Where voice can not he heard | L |
| 'Tis plain Thou meant'st that we should win | K |
| Thy succour by a word | L |
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| Might but Thy sense flash down the skies | M |
| Like man's from clime to clime | I |
| Thou would'st not let me agonize | M |
| Through my remaining time | I |
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| But seeing how much Thy creatures bear | N |
| Lame starved or maimed or blind | O |
| Thou'dst heal the ills with quickest care | N |
| Of me and all my kind | O |
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| Then since Thou mak'st not these things be | C |
| But these things dost not know | P |
| I'll praise Thee as were shown to me | C |
| The mercies Thou would'st show | P |
Thomas Hardy
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