Christian And Jew - A Dialogue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCB DD E FF FG HIJ KLMLM NOONPO QQRQR SJSJ TITII UVUU QFFQ VWWVW| 'Oh happy happy land | A |
| Angels like rushes stand | A |
| About the wells of light ' | B |
| 'Alas I have not eyes for this fair sight | C |
| Hold fast my hand ' | B |
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| 'As in a soft wind they | D |
| Bend all one blessed way | D |
| Each bowed in his own glory star with star ' | - |
| 'I cannot see so far | E |
| Here shadows are ' | - |
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| 'White winged the cherubim | F |
| Yet whiter seraphim | F |
| Glow white with intense fire of love ' | - |
| 'Mine eyes are dim | F |
| I look in vain above | G |
| And miss their hymn ' | - |
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| 'Angels Archangels cry | H |
| One to other ceaselessly | I |
| I hear them sing | J |
| One Holy Holy Holy to their King ' | - |
| 'I do not hear them I ' | - |
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| 'At one side Paradise | K |
| Is curtained from the rest | L |
| Made green for wearied eyes | M |
| Much softer than the breast | L |
| Of mother dove clad in a rainbow's dyes | M |
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| 'All precious souls are there | N |
| Most safe elect by grace | O |
| All tears are wiped for ever from their face | O |
| Untired in prayer | N |
| They wait and praise | P |
| Hidden for a little space | O |
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| 'Boughs of the Living Vine | Q |
| They spread in summer shine | Q |
| Green leaf with leaf | R |
| Sap of the Royal Vine it stirs like wine | Q |
| In all both less and chief | R |
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| 'Sing to the Lord | S |
| All spirits of all flesh sing | J |
| For He hath not abhorred | S |
| Our low estate nor scorn'd our offering | J |
| Shout to our King ' | - |
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| 'But Zion said | T |
| My Lord forgetteth me | I |
| Lo she hath made her bed | T |
| In dust forsaken weepeth she | I |
| Where alien rivers swell the sea | I |
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| 'She laid her body as the ground | U |
| Her tender body as the ground to those | V |
| Who passed her harpstrings cannot sound | U |
| In a strange land discrowned | U |
| She sits and drunk with woes ' | - |
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| 'O drunken not with wine | Q |
| Whose sins and sorrows have fulfilled the sum | F |
| Be not afraid arise be no more dumb | F |
| Arise shine | Q |
| For thy light is come ' | - |
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| 'Can these bones live ' | - |
| 'God knows | V |
| The prophet saw such clothed with flesh and skin | W |
| A wind blew on them and life entered in | W |
| They shook and rose | V |
| Hasten the time O Lord blot out their sin | W |
| Let life begin ' | - |
Christina Georgina Rossetti
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