The Love Of Christ Which Passeth Knowledge Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG HIHI JKJL MNMN OPOP| I bore with thee long weary days and nights | A |
| Through many pangs of heart through many tears | B |
| I bore with thee thy hardness coldness slights | A |
| For three and thirty years | C |
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| Who else had dared for thee what I have dared | D |
| I plunged the depth most deep from bliss above | E |
| I not My flesh I not My spirit spared | D |
| Give thou Me love for love | E |
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| For thee I thirsted in the daily drouth | F |
| For thee I trembled in the nightly frost | G |
| Much sweeter thou than honey to My mouth | F |
| Why wilt thou still be lost | G |
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| I bore thee on My shoulders and rejoiced | H |
| Men only marked upon My shoulders borne | I |
| The branding cross and shouted hungry voiced | H |
| Or wagged their heads in scorn | I |
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| Thee did nails grave upon My hands thy name | J |
| Did thorns for frontlets stamp between Mine eyes | K |
| I Holy One put on thy guilt and shame | J |
| I God Priest Sacrifice | L |
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| A thief upon My right hand and My left | M |
| Six hours alone athirst in misery | N |
| At length in death one smote My heart and cleft | M |
| A hiding place for thee | N |
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| Nailed to the racking cross than bed of down | O |
| More dear whereon to stretch Myself and sleep | P |
| So did I win a kingdom share My crown | O |
| A harvest come and reap | P |
Christina Rossetti
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