The After Woman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCDDEEEFFEEEEFFE EEE FCFFGGCCDDCCFFEEDD CCCCEEEECCCCGGDDCCDD CC| Daughter of the ancient Eve | A |
| We know the gifts ye gave and give | B |
| Who knows the gifts which YOU shall give | B |
| Daughter of the newer Eve | A |
| You if my soul be augur you | C |
| Shall O what shall you not Sweet do | C |
| The celestial traitress play | D |
| And all mankind to bliss betray | D |
| With sacrosanct cajoleries | E |
| And starry treachery of your eyes | E |
| Tempt us back to Paradise | E |
| Make heavenly trespass ay press in | F |
| Where faint the fledge foot seraphin | F |
| Blest Fool Be ensign of our wars | E |
| And shame us all to warriors | E |
| Unbanner your bright locks advance | E |
| Girl their gilded puissance | E |
| I' the mystic vaward and draw on | F |
| After the lovely gonfalon | F |
| Us to out folly the excess | E |
| Of your sweet foolhardiness | E |
| To adventure like intense | E |
| Assault against Omnipotence | E |
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| Give me song as She is new | F |
| Earth should turn in time thereto | C |
| New and new and thrice so new | F |
| All old sweets New Sweet meant you | F |
| Fair I had a dream of thee | G |
| When my young heart beat prophecy | G |
| And in apparition elate | C |
| Thy little breasts knew wax ed great | C |
| Sister of the Canticle | D |
| And thee for God grown marriageable | D |
| How my desire desired your day | C |
| That wheeled in rumour on its way | C |
| Shook me thus with presentience Then | F |
| Eden's lopped tree shall shoot again | F |
| For who Christ's eyes shall miss with those | E |
| Eyes for evident nuncios | E |
| Or who be tardy to His call | D |
| In your accents augural | D |
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| Who shall not feel the Heavens hid | C |
| Impend at tremble of your lid | C |
| And divine advent shine avowed | C |
| Under that dim and lucid cloud | C |
| Yea 'fore the silver apocalypse | E |
| Fail at the unsealing of your lips | E |
| When to love YOU is O Christ's Spouse | E |
| To love the beauty of His house | E |
| Then come the Isaian days the old | C |
| Shall dream and our young men behold | C |
| Vision yea the vision of Thabor mount | C |
| Which none to other shall recount | C |
| Because in all men's hearts shall be | G |
| The seeing and the prophecy | G |
| For ended is the Mystery Play | D |
| When Christ is life and you the way | D |
| When Egypt's spoils are Israel's right | C |
| And Day fulfils the married arms of Night | C |
| But here my lips are still | D |
| Until | D |
| You and the hour shall be revealed | C |
| This song is sung and sung not and its words are sealed | C |
Francis Thompson
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