Practising The Anthem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MNOP QRST UVWV DMAMXYZY A2K B2K C2D2E2D2 F2NPP G2H2I2H2 IFJ2F K2L2PM2 FN2ON2A summer wind blows through the open porch | A |
And 'neath the rustling eaves | B |
A summer light of moonrise calm and pale | C |
Shines through a vale of leaves | B |
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The soft gusts bring a scent of summer flowers | D |
Fresh with the falling dew | E |
And round the doorway glimmering white as snow | F |
The tender petals strew | E |
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Clear through the silence from a reedy pool | G |
The curlew's whistle thrills | H |
A lonely mopoke sorrowfully cries | I |
From the far folding hills | H |
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O lovely night and yet so sad and strange | J |
My fingers touch the key | K |
And down the empty church my Christmas song | L |
Goes ringing glad and free | K |
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Each sweet note knocks at dreaming memory's door | M |
And memory wakes in pain | N |
The spectral faces she had turn'd away | O |
Come crowding in again | P |
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The air seems full of music all around | Q |
I know not what I hear | R |
The multitudinous echoes of the past | S |
Or these few voices near | T |
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Ah me the dim aisle vaguely widens out | U |
I see me stand therein | V |
A glory of grey sculpture takes the light | W |
A winter morn brings in | V |
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No more I smell the fragrant jessamine flowers | D |
That flake a moonlit floor | M |
The rustling night breeze and the open porch | A |
I hear and see no more | M |
Great solemn windows down a long long nave | X |
Their shadow'd rainbows fling | Y |
Dark Purbeck shafts with hoary capitals | Z |
In carven archways spring | Y |
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And overhead the throbbing organ waves | A2 |
Roll in one mighty sea | K |
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Bearing the song the herald angels sang | B2 |
Of Christ's nativity | K |
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Dear hands touch mine beneath the open book | C2 |
Sweet eyes look in my face | D2 |
They smile they melt in darkness I am snatch'd | E2 |
From my familiar place | D2 |
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The summer night wind blows upon my tears | F2 |
Its flowery scent is pain | N |
O cold white day O noble minster when | P |
May I come back again | P |
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To hear the angels' anthem shake the air | G2 |
Where never discord jars | H2 |
The Christmas carols in the windy street | I2 |
Under the frosty stars | H2 |
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The dream like falling from the still grey skies | I |
With falling flakes of snow | F |
Of mellow chimes from old cathedral bells | J2 |
Solemn and sweet and slow | F |
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To hear loved footsteps beating time with mine | K2 |
Along the churchyard path | L2 |
To see that ring of faces once again | P |
Drawn round the blazing hearth | M2 |
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When may I come O Lord when may I go | F |
Nay I must wait Thy will | N2 |
Give patience Lord and in Thine own best way | O |
My hopes and prayers fulfil | N2 |
Ada Cambridge
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