Ave Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFFEEEGHIJKLE EMMNNOOPQEERREEEESTE EJJUVWXEEEEEEEEYYZA2 EEEEB2C2D2D2EEE2F2EE EEEEG2G2EEEEH2I2FFEE EEEEEEEEJ2K2EEEEI2L2 M2N2O2O2P2P2P2Mother 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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