Hymn On Charity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IGIGGJGJ| Nor faith nor hope whate'er their force | A |
| Can aught avail the soul | B |
| Should charity not guide its course | A |
| To glory's heavenly goal | B |
| The songs of wisdom tho' they soar | C |
| To notes that seraphs swell | D |
| If she be wanting are no more | C |
| Than folly's tinkling bell | D |
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| A thousand shapes as bright as morn | E |
| Sweet Charity assumes | F |
| And all the hues of Heaven adorn | E |
| Her variegated plumes | F |
| 'Tis she with consolation's voice | G |
| That stills affliction's storm | H |
| She bids despairing want rejoice | G |
| In bounty's radiant form | H |
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| But with what semblance is she seen | I |
| That more her power endears | G |
| Than when with mild instruction's mien | I |
| Her infant train she rears | G |
| Then she the earth bound spirit lifts | G |
| Above the valley's clod | J |
| Then gives the richest of her gifts | G |
| The knowledge of her God | J |
William Hayley
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