Thank God For Peace! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCCDB EEFF BFFFFF BGBBBBB BFGGHH IBFFBB| JUNE | A |
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| Thank God for Peace | B |
| Up to the sombre sky | C |
| Rolled one great thankful sigh | C |
| Rolled one great gladsome cry | C |
| The soul's deliverance of a mighty people | D |
| Thank God for Peace | B |
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| The long low hanging war cloud rolled away | E |
| And night glowed brighter than the brightest day | E |
| For Peace is Light | F |
| And War is grimmer than the Night | F |
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| Thank God for Peace | B |
| Great ocean was your mighty calm unstirred | F |
| As through your depths unseen unheard | F |
| Sped on its way the glorious word | F |
| That called a weary nation to ungird | F |
| And sheathed once more the keen reluctant sword | F |
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| Thank God for Peace | B |
| The word came to us as we knelt in prayer | G |
| That wars might cease | B |
| Peace found us on our knees and prayer for Peace | B |
| Was changed to prayer of deepest thankfulness | B |
| We knelt in War we rose in Peace to bless | B |
| Thy grace Thy care Thy tenderness | B |
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| Thank God for Peace | B |
| No matter now the rights and wrongs of it | F |
| You fought us bravely and we fought you fair | G |
| The fight is done Grip hands No malice bear | G |
| We greet you brothers to the nobler strife | H |
| Of building up the newer larger life | H |
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| Join hands Join hands Ye nations of the stock | I |
| And make henceforth a mighty Trust for Peace | B |
| A great enduring peace that shall withstand | F |
| The shocks of time and circumstance and every land | F |
| Shall rise and bless you and shall never cease | B |
| To bless you for that glorious gift of Peace | B |
William Arthur Dunkerley (john Oxenham)
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