The Church-porches Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEEDDEFFGHHGAB IJJIIJJIHKLMHM| I | A |
| To M F R | B |
| SISTER first shake we off the dust we have | C |
| Upon our feet lest it defile the stones | D |
| Inscriptured covering their sacred bones | D |
| Who lie i' the aisles which keep the names they gave | E |
| Their trust abiding round them in the grave | E |
| Whom painters paint for visible orisons | D |
| And to whom sculptors pray in stone and bronze | D |
| Their voices echo still like a spent wave | E |
| Without here the church bells are but a tune | F |
| And on the carven church door this hot noon | F |
| Lays all its heavy sunshine here without | G |
| But having entered in we shall find there | H |
| Silence and sudden dimness and deep prayer | H |
| And faces of crowned angels all about | G |
| II | A |
| To C G R | B |
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| SISTER arise We have no more to sing | I |
| Or say The priest abideth as is meet | J |
| To minister Rise up out of thy seat | J |
| Though peradventure 'tis an irksome thing | I |
| To cross again the threshold of our King | I |
| Where His doors stand against the evil street | J |
| And let each step increase upon our feet | J |
| The dust we shook from them at entering | I |
| Must we of very sooth go home The air | H |
| Whose heat outside makes mist that can be seen | K |
| Is very clear and cool where we have been | L |
| The priest abideth ministering Lo | M |
| As he for service why not we for prayer | H |
| It is so bidden sister let us go | M |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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