Resurrection Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAC DEDE FGFG HIHI JKJL MNOMO PQPQ RSRT UJVJ WGWG XYXY| Once more I hear the everlasting sea | A |
| Breathing beneath the mountain's fragrant | B |
| breast | C |
| Come unto Me come unto Me | A |
| And I will give you rest | C |
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| We have destroyed the Temple and in three days | D |
| He hath rebuilt it all things are made new | E |
| And hark what wild throats pour His praise | D |
| Beneath the boundless blue | E |
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| We plucked down all His altars cried aloud | F |
| And gashed ourselves for little gods of clay | G |
| Yon floating cloud was but a cloud | F |
| The May no more than May | G |
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| We plucked down all His altars left not one | H |
| Save where perchance and ah the joy was fleet | I |
| We laid our garlands in the sun | H |
| At the white Sea born's feet | I |
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| We plucked down all His altars not to make | J |
| The small praise greater but the great praise less | K |
| We sealed all fountains where the soul could slake | J |
| Its thirst and weariness | L |
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| Love was too small too human to be found | M |
| In that transcendent source whence love was | N |
| born | O |
| We talked of forces heaven was crowned | M |
| With philosophic thorn | O |
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| Your God is in your image we cried but O | P |
| 'Twas only man's own deepest heart ye gave | Q |
| Knowing that He transcended all ye know | P |
| While we dug His grave | Q |
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| Denied Him even the crown on our own brow | R |
| E'en these poor symbols of His loftier reign | S |
| Levelled His Temple with the dust and now | R |
| He is risen He is risen again | T |
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| Risen like this resurrection of the year | U |
| This grand ascension of the choral spring | J |
| Which those harp crowded heavens bend to hear | V |
| And meet upon the wing | J |
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| He is dead we cried and even amid that gloom | W |
| The wintry veil was rent The new born day | G |
| Showed us the Angel seated in the tomb | W |
| And the stone rolled away | G |
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| It is the hour We challenge heaven above | X |
| Now to deny our slight ephemeral breath | Y |
| Joy anguish and that everlasting love | X |
| Which triumphs over death | Y |
Alfred Noyes
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