Ave Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFFEEEGHIJKLE EMMNNOOPQEERREEEESTE EJJUVWXEEEEEEEEYYZA2 EEEEB2C2D2D2EEE2F2EE EEEEG2G2EEEEH2I2FFEE EEEEEEEEJ2K2EEEEI2L2 M2N2O2O2P2P2P2| Mother of the Fair Delight | A |
| Thou handmaid perfect in God's sight | A |
| Now sitting fourth beside the Three | B |
| Thyself a woman Trinity | B |
| Being a daughter born to God | C |
| Mother of Christ from stall to rood | D |
| And wife unto the Holy Ghost | E |
| Oh when our need is uttermost | E |
| Think that to such as death may strike | F |
| Thou once wert sister sisterlike | F |
| Thou headstone of humanity | E |
| Groundstone of the great Mystery | E |
| Fashioned like us yet more than we | E |
| Mind'st thou not when June's heavy breath | G |
| Warmed the long days in Nazareth | H |
| That eve thou didst go forth to give | I |
| Thy flowers some drink that they might live | J |
| One faint night more amid the sands | K |
| Far off the trees were as pale wands | L |
| Against the fervid sky the sea | E |
| Sighed further off eternally | E |
| As human sorrow sighs in sleep | M |
| Then suddenly the awe grew deep | M |
| As of a day to which all days | N |
| Were footsteps in God's secret ways | N |
| Until a folding sense like prayer | O |
| Which is as God is everywhere | O |
| Gathered about thee and a voice | P |
| Spake to thee without any noise | Q |
| Being of the silence Hail it said | E |
| Thou that art highly favour d | E |
| The Lord is with thee here and now | R |
| Blessed among all women thou | R |
| Ah knew'st thou of the end when first | E |
| That Babe was on thy bosom nurs'd | E |
| Or when He tottered round thy knee | E |
| Did thy great sorrow dawn on thee | E |
| And through His boyhood year by year | S |
| Eating with Him the Passover | T |
| Didst thou discern confusedly | E |
| That holier sacrament when He | E |
| The bitter cup about to quaff | J |
| Should break the bread and eat thereof | J |
| Or came not yet the knowledge even | U |
| Till on some day forecast in Heaven | V |
| His feet passed through thy door to press | W |
| Upon His Father's business | X |
| Or still was God's high secret kept | E |
| Nay but I think the whisper crept | E |
| Like growth through childhood Work and play | E |
| Things common to the course of day | E |
| Awed thee with meanings unfulfill'd | E |
| And all through girlhood something still'd | E |
| Thy senses like the birth of light | E |
| When thou hast trimmed thy lamp at night | E |
| Or washed thy garments in the stream | Y |
| To whose white bed had come the dream | Y |
| That He was thine and thou wast His | Z |
| Who feeds among the field lilies | A2 |
| O solemn shadow of the end | E |
| In that wise spirit long contain'd | E |
| O awful end and those unsaid | E |
| Long years when It was Finish d | E |
| Mind'st thou not when the twilight gone | B2 |
| Left darkness in the house of John | C2 |
| Between the naked window bars | D2 |
| That spacious vigil of the stars | D2 |
| For thou a watcher even as they | E |
| Wouldst rise from where throughout the day | E |
| Thou wroughtest raiment for His poor | E2 |
| And finding the fixed terms endure | F2 |
| Of day and night which never brought | E |
| Sounds of His coming chariot | E |
| Wouldst lift through cloud waste unexplor'd | E |
| Those eyes which said How long O Lord | E |
| Then that disciple whom He loved | E |
| Well heeding haply would be moved | E |
| To ask thy blessing in His name | G2 |
| And that one thought in both the same | G2 |
| Though silent then would clasp ye round | E |
| To weep together tears long bound | E |
| Sick tears of patience dumb and slow | E |
| Yet Surely I come quickly so | E |
| He said from life and death gone home | H2 |
| Amen even so Lord Jesus come | I2 |
| But oh what human tongue can speak | F |
| That day when Michael came to break | F |
| From the tir'd spirit like a veil | E |
| Its covenant with Gabriel | E |
| Endured at length unto the end | E |
| What human thought can apprehend | E |
| That mystery of motherhood | E |
| When thy Beloved at length renew'd | E |
| The sweet communion sever d | E |
| His left hand underneath thine head | E |
| And His right hand embracing thee | E |
| Lo He was thine and this is He | E |
| Soul is it Faith or Love or Hope | J2 |
| That lets me see her standing up | K2 |
| Where the light of the Throne is bright | E |
| Unto the left unto the right | E |
| The cherubim succinct conjoint | E |
| Float inward to a golden point | E |
| And from between the seraphim | I2 |
| The glory issues for a hymn | L2 |
| O Mary Mother be not loth | M2 |
| To listen thou whom the stars clothe | N2 |
| Who se st and mayst not be seen | O2 |
| Hear us at last O Mary Queen | O2 |
| Into our shadow bend thy face | P2 |
| Bowing thee from the secret place | P2 |
| O Mary Virgin full of grace | P2 |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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