A Legend Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDECCCFGHCIJKLCMC NLCOPQRSCTFUVWRXUYZC TA2B2CUC2UD2E2F2G2H2| He walked alone beside the lonely sea | A |
| The slanting sunbeams fell upon his face | B |
| His shadow fluttered on the pure white sands | C |
| Like the weary wing of a soundless prayer | D |
| And He was oh so beautiful and fair | D |
| Brown sandals on His feet His face downcast | E |
| As if He loved the earth more than the heav'ns | C |
| His face looked like His Mother's only hers | C |
| Had not those strange serenities and stirs | C |
| That paled or flushed His olive cheeks and brow | F |
| He wore the seamless robe His Mother made | G |
| And as He gathered it about His breast | H |
| The wavelets heard a sweet and gentle voice | C |
| Murmur Oh My Mother the white sands felt | I |
| The touch of tender tears He wept the while | J |
| He walked beside the sea He took His sandals off | K |
| To bathe His weary feet in the pure cool wave | L |
| For He had walked across the desert sands | C |
| All day long and as He bathed His feet | M |
| He murmured to Himself Three years three years | C |
| And then poor feet the cruel nails will come | N |
| And make you bleed but ah that blood shall lave | L |
| All weary feet on all their thorny ways | C |
| Three years three years He murmured still again | O |
| Ah would it were to morrow but a will | P |
| My Father's will biddeth Me bide that time | Q |
| A little fisher boy came up the shore | R |
| And saw Him and nor bold nor shy | S |
| Approached but when he saw the weary face | C |
| Said mournfully to Him You look a tired | T |
| He placed His hand upon the boy's brown brow | F |
| Caressingly and blessingly and said | U |
| I am so tired to wait The boy spake not | V |
| Sudden a sea bird driven by a storm | W |
| That had been sweeping on the farther shore | R |
| Came fluttering towards Him and panting fell | X |
| At His feet and died and then the boy said | U |
| Poor little bird in such a piteous tone | Y |
| He took the bird and laid it in His hand | Z |
| And breathed on it when to his amaze | C |
| The little fisher boy beheld the bird | T |
| Flutter a moment and then fly aloft | A2 |
| Its little life returned and then he gazed | B2 |
| With look intensest on the wondrous face | C |
| Ah it was beautiful and fair and said | U |
| Thou art so sweet I wish Thou wert my God | C2 |
| He leaned down towards the boy and softly said | U |
| I am thy Christ The day they followed Him | D2 |
| With cross upon His shoulders to His death | E2 |
| Within the shadow of a shelt'ring rock | F2 |
| That little boy knelt down and there adored | G2 |
| While others cursed the thorn crowned Crucified | H2 |
Abram Joseph Ryan
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