Madeline In Church Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCDAEEAAD FBBFBBBGGBCBHHGGGEIJ EJKKLLLGGGLLKKK GMGMJNNJJJGGGCBCGBOM OGBBBCPCBQQRBSST UGUGVCVCWW JCLCCGLIJGGGX KLKKKKYGGGGY GHere in the darkness where this plaster saint | A |
Stands nearer than God stands to our distress | B |
And one small candle shines but not so faint | A |
As the far lights of everlastingness | B |
I'd rather kneel than over there in open day | C |
Where Christ is hanging rather pray | C |
To something more like my own clay | C |
Not too divine | D |
For once perhaps my little saint | A |
Before he got his niche and crown | E |
Had one short stroll about the town | E |
It brings him closer just that taint | A |
And anyone can wash the paint | A |
Off our poor faces his and mine | D |
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Is that why I see Monty now equal to any saint poor boy as good as gold | F |
But still with just the proper trace | B |
Of earthliness on his shining wedding face | B |
And then gone suddenly blank and old | F |
The hateful day of the divorce | B |
Stuart got his hands down of course | B |
Crowing like twenty cocks and grinning like a horse | B |
But Monty took it hard All said and done I liked him best | G |
He was the first he stands out clearer than the rest | G |
It seems too funny all we other rips | B |
Should have immortal souls Monty and Redge quite damnably | C |
Keep theirs afloat while we go down like scuttled ships | B |
It's funny too how easily we sink | H |
One might put up a monument I think | H |
To half the world and cut across it quot Lost at Sea quot | G |
I should drown Jim poor little sparrow if I netted him to night | G |
No it's no use this penny light | G |
Or my poor saint with his tin pot crown | E |
The trees of Calvary are where they were | I |
When we are sure that we can spare | J |
The tallest let us go and strike it down | E |
And leave the other two still standing there | J |
I too would ask Him to remember me | K |
If there were any Paradise beyond this earth that I could see | K |
Oh quiet Christ who never knew | L |
The poisonous fangs that bite us through | L |
And make us do the things we do | L |
See how we suffer and fight and die | G |
How helpless and how low we lie | G |
God holds You and You hang so high | G |
Though no one looking long at You | L |
Can think You do not suffer too | L |
But up there from your still star lighted tree | K |
What can You know what can You really see | K |
Of this dark ditch the soul of me | K |
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We are what we are when I was half a child I could not sit | G |
Watching black shadows on green lawns and red carnations burning in the sun | M |
Without paying so heavily for it | G |
That joy and pain like any mother and her unborn child were almost one | M |
I could hardly bear | J |
The dreams upon the eyes of white geraniums in the dusk | N |
The thick close voice of musk | N |
The jessamine music on the thin night air | J |
Or sometimes my own hands about me anywhere | J |
The sight of my own face for it was lovely then even the scent of my own hair | J |
Oh there was nothing nothing that did not sweep to the high seat | G |
Of laughing gods and then blow down and beat | G |
My soul into the highway dust as hoofs do the dropped roses of the street | G |
I think my body was my soul | C |
And when we are made thus | B |
Who shall control | C |
Our hands our eyes the wandering passion of our feet | G |
Who shall teach us | B |
To thrust the world out of our heart to say till perhaps in death | O |
When the race is run | M |
And it is forced from us with our last breath | O |
quot Thy will be done quot | G |
If it is Your will that we should be content with the tame bloodless things | B |
As pale as angels smirking by with folded wings | B |
Oh I know Virtue and the peace it brings | B |
The temperate well worn smile | C |
The one man gives you when you are evermore his own | P |
And afterwards the child's for a little while | C |
With its unknowing and all seeing eyes | B |
So soon to change and make you feel how quick | Q |
The clock goes round If one had learned the trick | Q |
How does one though quite early on | R |
Of long green pastures under placid skies | B |
One might be walking now with patient truth | S |
What did we ever care for it who have asked for youth | S |
When oh my God this is going or has gone | T |
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There is a portrait of my mother at nineteen | U |
With the black spaniel standing by the garden seat | G |
The dainty head held high against the painted green | U |
And throwing out the youngest smile shy but half haughty and half sweet | G |
Her picture then but simply Youth or simply Spring | V |
To me to day a radiance on the wall | C |
So exquisite so heart breaking a thing | V |
Beside the mask that I remember shrunk and small | C |
Sapless and lined like a dead leaf | W |
All that was left of oh the loveliest face by time and grief | W |
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And in the glass last night I saw a ghost behind my chair | J |
Yet why remember it when one can still go moderately gay | C |
Or could with any one of the old crew | L |
But oh these boys the solemn way | C |
They take you and the things they say | C |
This quot I have only as long as you quot | G |
When you remind them you are not precisely twenty two | L |
Although at heart perhaps God if it were | I |
Only the face only the hair | J |
If Jim had written to me as he did to day | G |
A year ago and now it leaves me cold | G |
I know what this means old old old | G |
Et avec a mais on a v cu tout se paie | X |
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That is not always true there was my Mother well at least the dead are free | K |
Yoked to the man that Father was yoked to the woman I am Monty too | L |
The little portress at the Convent School stewing in hell so patiently | K |
The poor fair boy who shot himself at Aix And what of me and what of me | K |
But I I paid for what I had and they for nothing No one cannot see | K |
How it shall be made up to them in some serene eternity | K |
If there were fifty heavens God could not give us back the child who went or never came | Y |
Here on our little patch of this great earth the sun of any darkened day | G |
Not one of all the starry buds hung on the hawthorn trees of last year's May | G |
No shadow from the sloping fields of yesterday | G |
For every hour they slant across the hedge a different way | G |
The shadows are never the same | Y |
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quot Find rest i | G |
Charlotte Mary Mew
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