Extreme Unction Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG HIHI JFKFUpon 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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