The Last Prayer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJKJ LMLM NONO BPBP QDQD RSRD TUTU| MASTER of life the day is done | A |
| My sun of life is sinking low | B |
| I watch the hours slip one by one | A |
| And hark the night wind and the snow | B |
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| And must Thou shut the morning out | C |
| And dim the eye that loved to see | D |
| Silence the melody and rout | C |
| And seal the joys of earth for me | D |
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| And must Thou banish all the hope | E |
| The large horizon's eagle swim | F |
| The splendour of the far off slope | E |
| That ran about the world's great rim | F |
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| That rose with morning's crimson rays | G |
| And grew to noonday's gloried dome | H |
| Melting to even's purple haze | G |
| When all the hopes of earth went home | H |
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| Yea Master of this ruined house | I |
| The mortgage closed outruns the lease | J |
| Long since is hushed the gay carouse | K |
| And now the windowed lights must cease | J |
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| The doors all barred the shutters up | L |
| Dismantled empty wall and floor | M |
| And now for one grim eve to sup | L |
| With Death the bailiff at the door | M |
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| Yea I will take the gloomward road | N |
| Where fast the Arctic nights set in | O |
| To reach the bourne of that abode | N |
| Which Thou hast kept for all my kin | O |
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| And all life's splendid joys forego | B |
| Walled in with night and senseless stone | P |
| If at the last my heart might know | B |
| Through all the dark one joy alone | P |
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| Yea Thou mayst quench the latest spark | Q |
| Of life's weird day's expectancy | D |
| Roll down the thunders of the dark | Q |
| And close the light of life for me | D |
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| Melt all the splendid blue above | R |
| And let these magic wonders die | S |
| If Thou wilt only leave me Love | R |
| And Love's heart brother Memory | D |
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| Though all the hopes of every race | T |
| Crumbled in one red crucible | U |
| And melted mingled into space | T |
| Yet Master Thou wert merciful | U |
William Wilfred Campbell
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