Easter Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCD EED EFFGGHHDDIJD EED HHGKGKLLD GGMMMNNOOEED NNNNPPQQEED NNNND RRSSTTTD UUVVWWNND NXXNNNNND TTYNYN TNNNZZNA2A2EED B2B2GC2D2E2E2D2F2F2G 2G2D B2B2RRSH2I2I2NND NNNNEED NNNNNNJ2NJ2NEED

NaplesA
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Through the great sinful streets of Naples as I pastB
With fiercer heat than flamed above my headC
My heart was hot within me till at lastB
My brain was lightened when my tongue had saidC
Christ is not risenD
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Christ is not risen noE
He lies and moulders lowE
Christ is not risenD
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What though the stone were rolled away and thoughE
The grave found empty thereF
If not there then elsewhereF
If not where Joseph laid Him first why thenG
Where other menG
Translaid Him after in some humbler clayH
Long ere to dayH
Corruption that sad perfect work hath doneD
Which here she scarcely lightly had begunD
The foul engendered wormI
Feeds on the flesh of the life giving formJ
Of our most Holy and Anointed OneD
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He is not risen noE
He lies and moulders lowE
Christ is not risenD
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What if the women ere the dawn was greyH
Saw one or more great angels as they sayH
Angels or Him himself Yet neither there nor thenG
Nor afterward nor elsewhere nor at allK
Hath He appeared to Peter or the TenG
Nor save in thunderous terror to blind SaulK
Save in an after Gospel and late CreedL
He is not risen indeedL
Christ is not risenD
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Or what if e'en as runs the tale the TenG
Saw heard and touched again and yet againG
What if at Emma s' inn and by Capernaum's LakeM
Came One the bread that brakeM
Came One that spake as never mortal spakeM
And with them ate and drank and stood and walked aboutN
Ah 'some' did well to 'doubt'N
Ah the true Christ while these things came to passO
Nor heard nor spake nor walked nor dreamt alasO
He was not risen noE
He lay and moulder lowE
Christ was not risenD
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As circulates in some great city crowdN
A rumour changeful vague importunate and loudN
From no determined centre or of factN
Or authorship exactN
Which no man can denyP
Nor verifyP
So spread the wondrous fameQ
He all the sameQ
Lay senseless mouldering lowE
He was not risen noE
Christ was not risenD
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Ashes to ashes dust to dustN
As of the unjust also of the justN
Yea of that Just One tooN
This is the one sad Gospel that is trueN
Christ is not risenD
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Is He not risen and shall we not riseR
Oh we unwiseR
What did we dream what wake we to discoverS
Ye hills fall on us and ye mountains coverS
In darkness and great gloomT
Come ere we thought it is our day of doomT
From the cursed world which is one tombT
Christ is not risenD
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Eat drink and play and think that this is blissU
There is no Heaven but thisU
There is no HellV
Save Earth which serves the purpose doubly wellV
Seeing it visits stillW
With equallest apportionment of illW
Both good and bad alike and brings to one same dustN
The unjust and the justN
With Christ who is not risenD
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Eat drink and die for we are souls bereavedN
Of all the creatures under heaven's wide copeX
We are most hopeless who had once most hopeX
And most beliefless that had most believedN
Ashes to ashes dust to dustN
As of the unjust also of the justN
Yea of that just One tooN
It is the one sad Gospel that is trueN
Christ is not risenD
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Weep not beside the tombT
Ye women unto whomT
He was great solace while ye tended HimY
Ye who with napkin o'er the headN
And folds of linen round each wounded limbY
Laid out the Sacred DeadN
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And thou that bar'st Him in thy wondering wombT
Yea Daughters of Jerusalem departN
Bind up as best ye may your own sad bleeding heartN
Go to your homes your living children tendN
Your earthly spouses loveZ
Set your affections not on things aboveZ
Which moth and rust corrupt which quickliest come to endN
Or pray if pray ye must and pray if pray ye canA2
For death since dead is He whom ye deemed more than manA2
Who is not risen noE
But lies and moulders lowE
Who is not risenD
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Ye men of GalileeB2
Why stand ye looking up to heaven where Him ye ne'er may seeB2
Neither ascending hence nor returning hither againG
Ye ignorant and idle fishermenC2
Hence to your huts and boats and inland native shoreD2
And catch not men but fishE2
Whate'er things ye might wishE2
Him neither here nor there ye e'er shall meet with moreD2
Ye poor deluded youths go homeF2
Mend the old nets ye left to roamF2
Tie the split oar patch the torn sailG2
It was indeed an 'idle tale'G2
He was not risenD
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And oh good men of ages yet to beB2
Who shall believe because ye did not seeB2
Oh be ye warned be wiseR
No more with pleading eyesR
And sobs of strong desireS
Unto the empty vacant void aspireH2
Seeking another and impossible birthI2
That is not of your own and only mother earthI2
But if there is no other life for youN
Sit down and be content since this must even doN
He is not risenD
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One look and then departN
Ye humble and ye holy men of heartN
And ye I ye ministers and stewards of a WordN
Which ye would preach because another heardN
Ye worshippers of that ye do not knowE
Take these things hence and goE
He is not risenD
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Here on our Easter DayN
We rise we come and lo we find Him notN
Gardener nor other on the sacred spotN
Where they have laid Him there is none to sayN
No sound nor in nor out no wordN
Of where to seek the dead or meet the living LordN
There is no glistering of an angel's wingsJ2
There is no voice of heavenly clear behestN
Let us go hence and think upon these thingsJ2
In silence which is bestN
Is He not risen NoE
But lies and moulders lowE
Christ is not risenD

Arthur Hugh Clough



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