Easter Even Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDF GHIH BJBK LGLI BBBB MBNB OBPB BQBQ RSNS| Lyra Messianica | A |
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| There is nothing more that they can do | B |
| For all their rage and boast | C |
| Caiaphas with his blaspheming crew | B |
| Herod with his host | C |
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| Pontius Pilate in his Judgement hall | D |
| Judging their Judge and his | E |
| Or he who led them all and passed them all | D |
| Arch Judas with his kiss | F |
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| The sepulchre made sure with ponderous Stone | G |
| Seal that same stone O Priest | H |
| It may be thou shalt block the holy One | I |
| From rising in the east | H |
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| Set a watch about the sepulchre | B |
| To watch on pain of death | J |
| They must hold fast the stone if One should stir | B |
| And shake it from beneath | K |
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| God Almighty He can break a seal | L |
| And roll away a Stone | G |
| Can grind the proud in dust who would not kneel | L |
| And crush the mighty one | I |
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| There is nothing more that they can do | B |
| For all their passionate care | B |
| Those who sit in dust the blessed few | B |
| And weep and rend their hair | B |
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| Peter Thomas Mary Magdalene | M |
| The Virgin unreproved | B |
| Joseph with Nicodemus foremost men | N |
| And John the Well beloved | B |
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| Bring your finest linen and your spice | O |
| Swathe the sacred Dead | B |
| Bind with careful hands and piteous eyes | P |
| The napkin round His head | B |
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| Lay Him in the garden rock to rest | B |
| Rest you the Sabbath length | Q |
| The Sun that went down crimson in the west | B |
| Shall rise renewed in strength | Q |
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| God Almighty shall give joy for pain | R |
| Shall comfort him who grieves | S |
| Lo He with joy shall doubtless come again | N |
| And with Him bring His sheaves | S |
Christina Georgina Rossetti
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