Mary Magdalene I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACACA DEDEED FDFFD GHGGGH IHIIJH| As soon as night descends we meet | A |
| Remorse my memories releases | B |
| The demons of the past compete | A |
| And draw and tear my heart to pieces | C |
| Sin vice and madness and deceit | A |
| When I was slave of men's caprices | C |
| And when my dwelling was the street | A |
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| The deathly silence is not far | D |
| A few more moments only matter | E |
| Which the Inevitable bar | D |
| But at the edge before they scatter | E |
| In front of Thee my life I shatter | E |
| As though an alabaster jar | D |
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| O what might not have been my fate | F |
| By now my Teacher and my Saviour | D |
| Did not eternity await | F |
| Me at the table as a late | F |
| New victim of my past behaviour | D |
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| But what can sin now mean to me | G |
| And death and hell and sulphur burning | H |
| When like a graft onto a tree | G |
| I have for everyone to see | G |
| Grown into being part of Thee | G |
| In my immeasurable yearning | H |
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| When pressed against my knees I place | I |
| Thy precious feet and weep despairing | H |
| Perhaps I'm learning to embrace | I |
| The cross's rough four sided face | I |
| And fainting all my being sways | J |
| Towards Thee Thy burial preparing | H |
Boris Pasternak
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