Extreme Unction Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG HIHI JFKF| Upon the eyes the lips the feet | A |
| On all the passages of sense | B |
| The atoning oil is spread with sweet | A |
| Renewal of lost innocence | C |
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| The feet that lately ran so fast | D |
| To meet desire are soothly sealed | E |
| The eyes that were so often cast | D |
| On vanity are touched and healed | E |
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| From troublous sights and sounds set free | F |
| In such a twilight hour of breath | G |
| Shall one retrace his life or see | F |
| Through shadows the true face of death | G |
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| Vials of mercy Sacring oils | H |
| I know not where nor when I come | I |
| Nor through what wanderings and toils | H |
| To crave of you Viaticum | I |
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| Yet when the walls of flesh grow weak | J |
| In such an hour it well may be | F |
| Through mist and darkness light will break | K |
| And each anointed sense will see | F |
Ernest Christopher Dowson
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