After This The Judgment Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBDEDEFEFGFGHGIJ IJKJKLKLJLJMNMMMMOMO MOMPMPQPQMQMRMSMTMMM MKMKUKUMUM| As eager home bound traveller to the goal | A |
| Or steadfast seeker on an unsearched main | B |
| Or martyr panting for an aureole | A |
| My fellow pilgrims pass me and attain | B |
| That hidden mansion of perpetual peace | C |
| Where keen desire and hope dwell free from pain | B |
| That gate stands open of perennial ease | D |
| I view the glory till I partly long | E |
| Yet lack the fire of love which quickens these | D |
| O passing Angel speed me with a song | E |
| A melody of heaven to reach my heart | F |
| And rouse me to the race and make me strong | E |
| Till in such music I take up my part | F |
| Swelling those Hallelujahs full of rest | G |
| One tenfold hundred fold with heavenly art | F |
| Fulfilling north and south and east and west | G |
| Thousand ten thousand fold innumerable | H |
| All blent in one yet each one manifest | G |
| Each one distinguished and beloved as well | I |
| As if no second voice in earth or heaven | J |
| Were lifted up the Love of God to tell | I |
| Ah Love of God which Thine Own Self hast given | J |
| To me most poor and made me rich in love | K |
| Love that dost pass the tenfold seven times seven | J |
| Draw Thou mine eyes draw Thou my heart above | K |
| My treasure and my heart store Thou in Thee | L |
| Brood over me with yearnings of a dove | K |
| Be Husband Brother closest Friend to me | L |
| Love me as very mother loves her son | J |
| Her sucking firstborn fondled on her knee | L |
| Yea more than mother loves her little one | J |
| For earthly even a mother may forget | M |
| And feel no pity for its piteous moan | N |
| But Thou O Love of God remember yet | M |
| Through the dry desert through the waterflood | M |
| Life death until the Great White Throne is set | M |
| If now I am sick in chewing the bitter cud | M |
| Of sweet past sin though solaced by Thy grace | O |
| And ofttimes strengthened by Thy Flesh and Blood | M |
| How shall I then stand up before Thy face | O |
| When from Thine eyes repentance shall be hid | M |
| And utmost Justice stand in Mercy's place | O |
| When every sin I thought or spoke or did | M |
| Shall meet me at the inexorable bar | P |
| And there be no man standing in the mid | M |
| To plead for me while star fallen after star | P |
| With heaven and earth are like a ripened shock | Q |
| And all time's mighty works and wonders are | P |
| Consumed as in a moment when no rock | Q |
| Remains to fall on me no tree to hide | M |
| But I stand all creation's gazing stock | Q |
| Exposed and comfortless on every side | M |
| Placed trembling in the final balances | R |
| Whose poise this hour this moment must be tried | M |
| Ah Love of God if greater love than this | S |
| Hath no man that a man die for his friend | M |
| And if such love of love Thine Own Love is | T |
| Plead with Thyself with me before the end | M |
| Redeem me from the irrevocable past | M |
| Pitch Thou Thy Presence round me to defend | M |
| Yea seek with pierced feet yea hold me fast | M |
| With pierced hands whose wounds were made by love | K |
| Not what I am remember what Thou wast | M |
| When darkness hid from Thee Thy heavens above | K |
| And sin Thy Father's Face while Thou didst drink | U |
| The bitter cup of death didst taste thereof | K |
| For every man while Thou wast nigh to sink | U |
| Beneath the intense intolerable rod | M |
| Grown sick of love not what I am but think | U |
| Thy Life then ransomed mine my God my God | M |
Christina Rossetti
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