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Sister Helen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Why did you melt your waxen man	A
Sister Helen	B
To day is the third since you began	A
The time was long yet the time ran	A
Little brother	C
O Mother Mary Mother	C
Three days to day between Hell and Heaven	B
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But if you have done your work aright	D
Sister Helen	B
You'll let me play for you said I might	D
Be very still in your play to night	D
Little brother	C
O Mother Mary Mother	C
Third night to night between Hell and Heaven	B
	-
You said it must melt ere vesper bell	E
Sister Helen	B
If now it be molten all is well	E
Even so nay peace you cannot tell	E
Little brother	C
O Mother Mary Mother	C
O what is this between Hell and Heaven	B
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Oh the waxen knave was plump to day	D
Sister Helen	B
How like dead folk he has dropp'd away	D
Nay now of the dead what can you say	D
Little brother	C
O Mother Mary Mother	C
What of the dead between Hell and Heaven	B
	-
See see the sunken pile of wood	D
Sister Helen	B
Shines through the thinn'd wax red as blood	D
Nay now when look'd you yet on blood	D
Little brother	C
O Mother Mary Mother	C
How pale she is between Hell and Heaven	B
	-
Now close your eyes for they're sick and sore	F
Sister Helen	B
And I'll play without the gallery door	F
Aye let me rest I'll lie on the floor	F
Little brother	C
O Mother Mary Mother	C
What rest to night between Hell and Heaven	B
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Here high up in the balcony	G
Sister Helen	B
The moon flies face to face with me	G
Aye look and say whatever you see	G
Little brother	C
O Mother Mary Mother	C
What sight to night between Hell and Heaven	B
	-
Outside it's merry in the wind's wake	H
Sister Helen	B
In the shaken trees the chill stars shake	H
Hush heard you a horse tread as you spake	H
Little brother	C
O Mother Mary Mother	C
What sound to night between Hell and Heaven	B
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I hear a horse tread and I see	G
Sister Helen	B
Three horsemen that ride terribly	G
Little brother whence come the three	G
Little brother	C
O Mother Mary Mother	C
Whence should they come between Hell and Heaven	B
	-
They come by the hill verge from Boyne Bar	I
Sister Helen	B
And one draws nigh but two are afar	I
Look look do you know them who they are	I
Little brother	C
O Mother Mary Mother	C
Who should they be between Hell and Heaven	B
	-
Oh it's Keith of Eastholm rides so fast	D
Sister Helen	B
For I know the white mane on the blast	D
The hour has come has come at last	D
Little brother	C
O Mother Mary Mother	C
Her hour at last between Hell and Heaven	B
	-
He has made a sign and called Halloo	G
Sister Helen	B
And he says that he would speak with you	J
Oh tell him I fear the frozen dew	J
Little brother	C
O Mother Mary Mother	C
Why laughs she thus between Hell and Heaven	B
	-
The wind is loud but I hear him cry	K
Sister Helen	B
That Keith of Ewern's like to die	K
And he and thou and thou and I	K
Little brother	C
O Mother Mary Mother	C
And they and we between Hell and Heaven	B
	-
Three days ago on his marriage morn	L
Sister Helen	B
He sicken'd and lies since then forlorn	L
For bridegroom's side is the bride a thorn	L
Little brother	C
O Mother Mary Mother	C
Cold bridal cheer between Hell and Heaven	B
	-
Three days and nights he has lain abed	D
Sister Helen	B
And he prays in torment to be dead	D
The thing may chance if he have pray'd	D
Little brother	C
O Mother Mary Mother	C
If he have pray'd between Hell and Heaven	B
	-
But he has not ceas'd to cry to day	D
Sister Helen	B
That you should take your curse away	D
My prayer was heard he need but pray	D
Little brother	C
O Mother Mary Mother	C
Shall God not hear between Hell and Heaven	B
	-
But he says till you take back your ban	A
Sister Helen	B
His soul would pass yet never can	A
Nay then shall I slay a living man	A
Little brother	C
O Mother Mary Mother	C
A living soul between Hell and Heaven	B
	-
But he calls for ever on your name	M
Sister Helen	B
And says that he melts before a flame	M
My heart for his pleasure far'd the same	M
Little brother	C
O Mother Mary Mother	C
Fire at the heart between Hell and Heaven	B
	-
Here's Keith of Westholm riding fast	D
Sister Helen	B
For I know the white plume on the blast	D
The hour the sweet hour I forecast	D
Little brother	C
O Mother Mary Mother	C
Is the hour sweet between Hell and Heaven	B
	-
He stops to speak and he stills his horse	N
Sister Helen	B
But his words are drown'd in the wind's course	N
Nay hear nay hear you must hear perforce	N
Little brother	C
O Mother Mary Mother	C
What word now heard between Hell and Heaven	B
	-
Oh he says that Keith of Ewern's cry	K
Sister Helen	B
Is ever to see you ere he die	K
In all that his soul sees there am I	K
Little brother	C
O Mother Mary Mother	C
The soul's one sight between Hell and Heaven	B
	-
He sends a ring and a broken coin	O
Sister Helen	B
And bids you mind the banks of Boyne	O
What else he broke will he ever join	O
Little brother	C
O Mother Mary Mother	C
No never join'd between Hell and Heaven	B
	-
He yields you these and craves full fain	P
Sister Helen	B
You pardon him in his mortal pain	P
What else he took will he give again	Q
Little brother	C
O Mother Mary Mother	C
Not twice to give between Hell and Heaven	B
	-
He calls your name in an agony	G
Sister Helen	B
That even dead Love must weep to see	G
Hate born of Love is blind as he	G
Little brother	C
O Mother Mary Mother	C
Love turn'd to hate between Hell and Heaven	B
	-
Oh it's Keith of Keith now that rides fast	D
Sister Helen	B
For I know the white hair on the blast	D
The short short hour will soon be past	D
Little brother	C
O Mother Mary Mother	C
Will soon be past between Hell and Heaven	B
	-
He looks at me and he tries to speak	R
Sister Helen	B
But oh his voice is sad and weak	R
What here should the mighty Baron seek	R
Little brother	C
O Mother Mary Mother	C
Is this the end between Hell and Heaven	B
	-
Oh his son still cries if you forgive	S
Sister Helen	B
The body dies but the soul shall live	T
Fire shall forgive me as I forgive	S
Little brother	C
O Mother Mary Mother	C
As she forgives between Hell and Heaven	B
	-
Oh he prays you as his heart would rive	S
Sister Helen	B
To save his dear son's soul alive	S
Fire cannot slay it it shall thrive	S
Little brother	C
O Mother Mary Mother	C
Alas alas between Hell and Heaven	B
	-
He cries to you kneeling in the road	D
Sister Helen	B
To go with him for the love of God	D
The way is long to his son's abode	D
Little brother	C
O Mother Mary Mother	C
The way is long between Hell and Heaven	B
	-
A lady's here by a dark steed brought	D
Sister Helen	B
So darkly clad I saw her not	D
See her now or never see aught	D
Little brother	C
O Mother Mary Mother	C
What more to see between Hell and Heaven	B
	-
Her hood falls back and the moon shines fair	U
Sister Helen	B
On the Lady of Ewern's golden hair	U
Blest hour of my power and her despair	U
Little brother	C
O Mother Mary Mother	C
Hour blest and bann'd between Hell and Heaven	B
	-
Pale pale her cheeks that in pride did glow	G
Sister Helen	B
'Neath the bridal wreath three days ago	G
One morn for pride and three days for woe	G
Little brother	C
O Mother Mary Mother	C
Three days three nights between Hell and Heaven	B
	-
Her clasp'd hands stretch from her bending head	D
Sister Helen	B
With the loud wind's wail her sobs are wed	D
What wedding strains hath her bridal bed	D
Little brother	C
O Mother Mary Mother	C
What strain but death's between Hell and Heaven	B
	-
She may not speak she sinks in a swoon	V
Sister Helen	B
She lifts her lips and gasps on the moon	V
Oh might I but hear her soul's blithe tune	V
Little brother	C
O Mother Mary Mother	C
Her woe's dumb cry between Hell and Heaven	B
	-
They've caught her to Westholm's saddle bow	W
Sister Helen	B
And her moonlit hair gleams white in its flow	G
Let it turn whiter than winter snow	G
Little brother	C
O Mother Mary Mother	C
Woe wither'd gold between Hell and Heaven	B
	-
O Sister Helen you heard the bell	G
Sister Helen	B
More loud than the vesper chime it fell	G
No vesper chime but a dying knell	G
Little brother	C
O Mother Mary Mother	C
His dying knell between Hell and Heaven	B
	-
Alas but I fear the heavy sound	D
Sister Helen	B
Is it in the sky or in the ground	D
Say have they turn'd their horses round	D
Little brother	C
O Mother Mary Mother	C
What would she more between Hell and Heaven	B
	-
They have rais'd the old man from his knee	G
Sister Helen	B
And they ride in silence hastily	G
More fast the naked soul doth flee	G
Little brother	C
O Mother Mary Mother	C
The naked soul between Hell and Heaven	B
	-
Flank to flank are the three steeds gone	X
Sister Helen	B
But the lady's dark steed goes alone	Y
And lonely her bridegroom's soul hath flown	Y
Little brother	C
O Mother Mary Mother	C
The lonely ghost between Hell and Heaven	B
	-
Oh the wind is sad in the iron chill	G
Sister Helen	B
And weary sad they look by the hill	G
But he and I are sadder still	G
Little brother	C
O Mother Mary Mother	C
Most sad of all between Hell and Heaven	B
	-
See see the wax has dropp'd from its place	Z
Sister Helen	B
And the flames are winning up apace	Z
Yet here they burn but for a space	Z
Little brother	C
O Mother Mary Mother	C
Here for a space between Hell and Heaven	B
	-
Ah what white thing at the door has cross'd	D
Sister Helen	B
Ah what is this that sighs in the frost	D
A soul that's lost as mine is lost	D
Little brother	C
O Mother Mary Mother	C
Lost lost all lost between Hell and Heaven	B