Unredeemed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGF IJIJEKEKK LMNMN JOJO HEFE EKEK EPEP EQEQ RSRS EOEO TETE UKUK EOEO EKEK EEEE UKUK EVEV EWEWI saw the Christ down from His cross | A |
A tragic man lean limbed and tall | B |
But weighed with suffering and loss | A |
His back was to a broken wall | B |
And out upon the tameless world | C |
Was fixed His gaze His piercing eye | D |
Beheld the towns to ruin hurled | C |
And saw the storm of death pass by | D |
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Two thousand years it was since first | E |
He offered to the race of men | F |
His sovran boon As one accurst | E |
They nailed Him to the jibbet then | F |
And while they mocked Him for their mirth | G |
He smiled and from the hill of pain | H |
To all the hating tribes of earth | G |
Held forth His wondrous gift again | F |
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To day the thorns were on His brow | I |
His grief was deeper than before | J |
From ravaged field and city now | I |
Arose the screams and reek of war | J |
The black smoke parted Through the rift | E |
God's sun fell on the b oody lands | K |
Christ wept for still His priceless gift | E |
He held within His wounded hands | K |
Xxxx | K |
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The Living Picture | L |
He rode along one splendid noon | M |
When all the hills were lit with Spring | N |
And through the bushland throbbed a croon | M |
Of every living hopeful thing | N |
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Between his teeth a rose he bore | J |
As white as milk and passing there | O |
He tossed it with a laugh I wore | J |
It as it fell among my hair | O |
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No day a drip with golden rain | H |
No heat with drench of wattle scent | E |
Can touch the heart of me again | F |
But with that young sweet wonder blent | E |
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We wed upon a gusty day | E |
When baffled fury whipped the sea | K |
And now I love the swift wet play | E |
Of wind and rain besetting me | K |
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I took white roses in my hand | E |
A white rose on my forehead shone | P |
For we had come to understand | E |
White roses bloomed for us alone | P |
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When scarce a year had gone he sped | E |
To fight the wars With eyes grown grim | Q |
He kissed my lips and whispering said | E |
The world we must keep sweet for him | Q |
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He wrote of war the soldier's life | R |
'Tis hard my dearest but be brave | S |
I did not make my love my wife | R |
To be the mother of a slave | S |
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My babe was born a boy He had | E |
His father's eyes his smile his hair | O |
And oh my soul was brimming glad | E |
It seemed his father's self was there | O |
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But now came one who bade me still | T |
In holy Heaven put my trust | E |
They'd laid my love beneath the hill | T |
And sealed his eyes with timeless dust | E |
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Against my breast the babe I drew | U |
With strength from him to stay my fears | K |
I fought my fight the long days through | U |
He laughed and dabbled in my tears | K |
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From my poor heart at which it fed | E |
With tiger teeth I thrust despair | O |
And faced a world with shadow spread | E |
And only echoes in the air | O |
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The winter waned One eve I went | E |
Led by a kindly hand to see | K |
In moving scenes the churches rent | E |
The tumbled hill the blasted lee | K |
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Of soldiers resting by the road | E |
Who smoked and drowsed a muddy rout | E |
One sprang alert and forward strode | E |
With eager eyes to seek us out | E |
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His fingers held a rose He threw | U |
The flower and waved his cap In me | K |
A frenzy of assurance grew | U |
For O dear God 'twas he 'twas he | K |
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I called aloud Aloft my child | E |
I held and nearer yet he came | V |
And when he understood and smiled | E |
My baby lisped his father's name | V |
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They say I fell like something dead | E |
But when I woke to morning's glow | W |
My boy sat by me on the bed | E |
And in his hand a rose of snow | W |
Edward George Dyson
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