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