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