Benedetta Minelli Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDEC FGGF HIIH JKKJ LMML NOON PQRS TUUT VWWV WWWW MXXM A T AYYA WWWW WTTW WWWW MAWM ZA2A2Z RVVQ PB2B2P WMMW C2WWC2 ZWWD2 E2WWF2| I | A |
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| THE NOVICE | B |
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| IT is near morning Ere the next night fall | C |
| I shall be made the bride of heaven Then home | D |
| To my still marriage chamber I shall come | E |
| And spouseless childless watch the slow years crawl | C |
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| These lips will never meet a softer touch | F |
| Than the stone crucifix I kiss no child | G |
| Will clasp this neck Ah virgin mother mild | G |
| Thy painted bliss will mock me overmuch | F |
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| This is the last time I shall twist the hair | H |
| My mother's hand wreathed till in dust she lay | I |
| The name her name given on my baptism day | I |
| This is the last time I shall ever bear | H |
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| O weary world O heavy life farewell | J |
| Like a tired child that creeps into the dark | K |
| To sob itself asleep where none will mark | K |
| So creep I to my silent convent cell | J |
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| Friends lovers whom I loved not kindly hearts | L |
| Who grieve that I should enter this still door | M |
| Grieve not Closing behind me evermore | M |
| Me from all anguish as all joy it parts | L |
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| Love whom alone I loved who stand'st far off | N |
| Lifting compassionate eyes that could not save | O |
| Remember this my spirit's quiet grave | O |
| Hides me from worldly pity worldly scoff | N |
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| 'T was less thy hand than Heaven's which came between | P |
| And dashed my cup down See I shed no tears | Q |
| And if I think at all of vanished years | R |
| 'T is but to bless thee dear for what has been | S |
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| My soul continually does cry to thee | T |
| In the night watches ghost like stealing out | U |
| From its flesh tomb and hovering thee about | U |
| So live that I in heaven thy face may see | T |
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| Live noble heart of whom this heart of mine | V |
| Was half unworthy Build up actions great | W |
| That I down looking from the crystal gate | W |
| Smile o'er our dead hopes urned in such a shrine | V |
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| Live keeping aye they spirit undefiled | W |
| That when we stand before our Master's feet | W |
| I with an angel's love may crown complete | W |
| The woman's faith the worship of the child | W |
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| Dawn solemn bridal morn ope bridal door | M |
| I enter My vowed soul may Heaven take | X |
| My heart its virgin spousal for thy sake | X |
| O love keeps sacred thus forevermore | M |
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| II | A |
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| THE SISTER OF MERCY | T |
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| IS it then so Good friends who sit and sigh | A |
| While I lie smiling are my life's sands run | Y |
| Will my next matins hymned beyond the sun | Y |
| Mingle with those of saints and martyrs high | A |
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| Shall I with these my gray hairs turned to gold | W |
| My aged limbs new clad in garments white | W |
| Stand all transfigured in the angels' sight | W |
| Singing triumphantly that moan of old | W |
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| Thy will be done It was done O my God | W |
| Thou know'st when over grief's tempestuous sea | T |
| My broken wing d soul fled home to Thee | T |
| I writhed but never murmured at Thy rod | W |
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| It fell upon me stern at first then soft | W |
| As parent's kisses till the wound was healed | W |
| And I went forth a laborer in Thy field | W |
| They best can bind who have been bruis d oft | W |
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| And Thou wert pitiful I came heart sore | M |
| And drank Thy cup because earth's cups ran dry | A |
| Thou slew'st me not for that impiety | W |
| But madest the draught so sweet I thirst no more | M |
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| I came for silence heavy rest or death | Z |
| Thou gavest instead life peace and holy toil | A2 |
| My sighing lips from sorrow didst assoil | A2 |
| And fill with righteous thankfulness each breath | Z |
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| Therefore I praise Thee that Thou shuttest Thine ears | R |
| Unto my misery didst Thy will not mine | V |
| That to this length of days Thy hand divine | V |
| My feet from falling kept mine eyes from tears | Q |
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| Sisters draw near Hear my last words serene | P |
| When I was young I walked in mine own ways | B2 |
| Worshipped not God sought not alone His praise | B2 |
| So he cut down my gourd while it was green | P |
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| And then He o'er me threw His holy shade | W |
| That though no other mortal plants might grow | M |
| Mocking the beauty that was long laid low | M |
| I dwelt in peace and His commands obeyed | W |
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| I thank Him for all joy and for all pain | C2 |
| For heal d pangs for years of calm content | W |
| For blessedness of spending and being spent | W |
| In His high service where all loss is gain | C2 |
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| I bless Him for my life and for my death | Z |
| But most that in my death my life is crowned | W |
| Since I see there with angels gathering round | W |
| My angel Ay love thou hast kept thy faith | D2 |
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| I mine The golden portals will not close | E2 |
| Like those of earth between us Reach thy hand | W |
| No miserere sisters Chant out grand | W |
| Te Deum laudamus Now 't is all repose | F2 |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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