Mary's Girlhood (for A Picture) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBA CDEFGH| This is that blessed Mary pre elect | A |
| God's Virgin Gone is a great while and she | B |
| Dwelt young in Nazareth of Galilee | B |
| Unto God's will she brought devout respect | A |
| Profound simplicity of intellect | A |
| And supreme patience From her mother's knee | B |
| Faithful and hopeful wise in charity | B |
| Strong in grave peace in pity circumspect | A |
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| So held she through her girlhood as it were | C |
| An angel water'd lily that near God | D |
| Grows and is quiet Till one dawn at home | E |
| She woke in her white bed and had no fear | F |
| At all yet wept till sunshine and felt aw'd | G |
| Because the fulness of the time was come | H |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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