Mary Magdalene Ii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GEGH IJKJ LMLM NOHP QRST UVWX YOZO| People clean their homes before the feast | A |
| Stepping from the bustle of the street | B |
| I go down before Thee on my knees | C |
| And anoint with myrrh Thy holy feet | B |
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| Groping round I cannot find the shoes | D |
| For the tears that well up with my sighs | E |
| My impatient tresses breaking loose | F |
| Like a pall hang thick before my eyes | E |
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| I take up Thy feet onto my lap | G |
| Wash them clean with hot tears from my eyes | E |
| In my hair Thy precious feet I wrap | G |
| And my string of pearls around them tie | H |
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| I now see the future in detail | I |
| As if it were stopped in flight by Thee | J |
| Like a raving sibyl I could tell | K |
| What will happen how it will all be | J |
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| In the temple veils will fall tomorrow | L |
| We shall form a frightened group apart | M |
| And the earth will shake perhaps from sorrow | L |
| And from pity for my tortured heart | M |
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| Troops will then reform and march away | N |
| To the thud of hoofs and heavy tread | O |
| And the cross will reach towards the sky | H |
| Like a water spout above our heads | P |
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| By the cross I'll fall down on the ground | Q |
| I shall bite my lips till I draw blood | R |
| On the cross your arms will be spread out | S |
| Wide enough to hug the whole wide world | T |
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| Who's this for this glory and this strife | U |
| Who's this for this torment and this might | V |
| Are there enough souls on earth and lives | W |
| Are there enough cities dales and heights | X |
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| But three days such days and nights will pass | Y |
| They will fill me with such crushing dread | O |
| That I'll see the joyous truth at last | Z |
| I shall know Christ will rise from the dead | O |
Boris Pasternak
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