What Went Ye Out For To See? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FGHHIJKKEE LMLMCNCN| Across the sea along the shore | A |
| In numbers more and ever more | A |
| From lonely hut and busy town | B |
| The valley through the mountain down | B |
| What was it ye went out to see | C |
| Ye silly folk of Galilee | C |
| The reed that in the wind doth shake | D |
| The weed that washes in the lake | D |
| The reeds that waver the weeds that float | E |
| A young man preaching in a boat | E |
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| What was it ye went out to hear | F |
| By sea and land from far and near | G |
| A teacher Rather seek the feet | H |
| Of those who sit in Moses' seat | H |
| Go humbly seek and bow to them | I |
| Far off in great Jerusalem | J |
| From them that in her courts ye saw | K |
| Her perfect doctors of the law | K |
| What is it came ye here to note | E |
| A young man preaching in a boat | E |
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| A prophet Boys and women weak | L |
| Declare or cease to rave | M |
| Whence is it he hath learned to speak | L |
| Say who his doctrine gave | M |
| A prophet Prophet wherefore he | C |
| Of all in Israel tribes | N |
| He teacheth with authority | C |
| And not as do the Scrib's | N |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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