An Abc Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCCCCC ADADAADD CBCBBBBB ACACCCCC DEDEEAEA AAAAAEAE CECEEFEF GEFEEHEH CBCBBABA DIJIIBIB HEHEECEC AAEAACAC CECEAHHH AEAEEAEA CACAAKAL MHMHHNAN EOEOOPOP AEHEEEEE OBOBBCBC NCNCCBCB ABABBABA BHHHHOHO NANAANAB

Incipit carmen secundum ordinem litterarum alphabetiA
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Almighty and al merciable queeneB
To whom that al this world fleeth for socourC
To have relees of sinne of sorwe and teeneB
Glorious virgine of alle floures flourC
To thee I flee confounded in errourC
Help and releeve thou mighti debonayreC
Have mercy on my perilous langourC
Venquisshed me hath my cruel adversaireC
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Bountee so fix hath in thin herte his tenteA
That wel I wot thou wolt my socour beeD
Thou canst not warne him that with good ententeA
Axeth thin helpe thin herte is ay so freeD
Thou art largesse of pleyn feliciteeA
Haven of refut of quiete and of resteA
Loo how that theeves sevene chasen meeD
Help lady bright er that my ship tobreste Riv pD
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Comfort is noon but in yow ladi deereC
For loo my sinne and my confusiounB
Which oughten not in thi presence appeereC
Han take on me a greevous acciounB
Of verrey right and desperaciounB
And as hi right thei mighten wel susteeneB
That I were wurthi my dampnaciounB
Nere merci of you blisful hevene queeneB
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Dowte is ther noon thou queen of misericordeA
That thou n'art cause of grace and merci heereC
God vouched sauf thurgh thee with us to accordeA
For certes Crystes blisful mooder deereC
Were now the bowe bent in swich maneereC
As it was first of justice and of ireC
The rightful God nolde of no mercy heereC
But thurgh thee han we grace as we desireC
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Evere hath myn hope of refut been in theeD
For heer biforn ful ofte in many a wyseE
Hast thou to misericorde receyved meD
But merci ladi at the grete assyseE
Whan we shule come bifore the hye justyseE
So litel fruit shal thanne in me be foundeA
That but thou er that day correcte viceE
Of verrey right my werk wol me confoundeA
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Fleeinge I flee for socour to thi tenteA
Me for to hide from tempeste ful of dreedeA
Biseeching yow that ye you not absenteA
Thouh I be wikke O help yit at this needeA
Al have I ben a beste in wil and deedeA
Yit ladi thou me clothe with thi graceE
Thin enemy and myn ladi tak heedeA
Unto my deth in poynt is me to chaceE
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Glorious mayde and mooder which that nevereC
Were bitter neither in erthe nor in seeE
But ful of swetnesse and of merci evereC
Help that my Fader be not wroth with meE
Spek thou for I ne dar not him yseeE
So have I doon in erthe allas the whileF
That certes but if thou my socour beeE
To stink eterne he wole my gost exileF
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He vouched sauf tel him as was his willeG
Bicome a man to have oure alliaunceE
And with his precious blood he wrot the billeF
Upon the crois as general acquitaunceE
To every penitent in ful creaunceE
And therfore ladi bright thou for us prayeH
Thanne shalt thou bothe stinte al his grevaunceE
And make oure foo to failen of his prayeH
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I wot it wel thou wolt ben oure socourC
Thou art so ful of bowntee in certeynB
For whan a soule falleth in errourC
Thi pitee goth and haleth him ayeinB
Thanne makest thou his pees with his sovereynB
And bringest him out of the crooked streteA
Whoso thee loveth he shal not love in veynB
That shal he fynde as he the lyf shal leteA
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Kalenderes enlumyned ben theiD
That in this world ben lighted with thi nameI
And whoso goth to yow the righte weyJ
Him thar not drede in soule to be lameI
Now queen of comfort sith thou art that sameI
To whom I seeche for my medicyneB
Lat not my foo no more my wounde entameI
Myn hele into thin hand al I resygneB
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Ladi thi sorwe kan I not portreyeH
Under the cros ne his greevous penaunceE
But for youre bothes peynes I yow preyeH
Lat not oure alder foo make his bobaunceE
That he hath in his lystes of mischaunceE
Convict that ye bothe have bought so deereC
As I seide erst thou ground of oure substaunceE
Continue on us thi pitous eyen cleereC
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Moises that saugh the bush with flawmes redeA
Brenninge of which ther never a stikke brendeA
Was signe of thin unwemmed maidenhede Riv pE
Thou art the bush on which ther gan descendeA
The Holi Gost the which that Moyses wendeA
Had ben a fyr and this was in figureC
Now ladi from the fyr thou us defendeA
Which that in helle eternalli shal dureC
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Noble princesse that nevere haddest peereC
Certes if any comfort in us beeE
That cometh of thee thou Cristes mooder deereC
We han noon oother melodye or gleeE
Us to rejoyse in oure adversiteeA
Ne advocat noon that wole and dar so preyeH
For us and that for litel hire as yeeH
That helpen for an Ave Marie or tweyeH
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O verrey light of eyen that ben blyndeA
O verrey lust of labour and distresseE
O tresoreere of bountee to mankyndeA
Thee whom God ches to mooder for humblesseE
From his ancille he made the maistresseE
Of hevene and erthe oure bille up for to beedeA
This world awaiteth evere on thi goodnesseE
For thou ne failest nevere wight at needeA
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Purpos I have sum time for to enquereC
Wherfore and whi the Holi Gost thee soughteA
Whan Gabrielles vois cam to thin ereC
He not to werre us swich a wonder wroughteA
But for to save us that he sithen boughteA
Thanne needeth us no wepen us for to saveK
But oonly ther we dide not as us oughteA
Doo penitence and merci axe and haveL
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Queen of comfort yit whan I me bithinkeM
That I agilt have bothe him and theeH
And that my soule is worthi for to sinkeM
Allas I caityf whider may I fleeH
Who shal unto thi Sone my mene beeH
Who but thiself that art of pitee welleN
Thou hast more reuthe on oure adversiteeA
Than in this world might any tonge telleN
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Redresse me mooder and me chastiseE
For certeynly my Faderes chastisingeO
That dar I nouht abiden in no wiseE
So hidous is his rightful rekenyngeO
Mooder of whom oure merci gan to springeO
Beth ye my juge and eek my soules lecheP
For evere in you is pitee haboundingeO
To ech that wole of pitee you biseecheP
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Soth is that God ne granteth no piteeA
Withoute thee for God of his goodnesseE
Foryiveth noon but it like unto theeH
He hath thee maked vicaire and maistresseE
Of al this world and eek governouresseE
Of hevene and he represseth his justiseE
After thi wil and therfore in witnesseE
He hath thee corowned in so rial wiseE
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Temple devout ther God hath his woningeO
Fro which these misbileeved deprived beenB
To you my soule penitent I bringeO
Receyve me I can no ferther fleenB
With thornes venymous O hevene queenB
For which the eerthe acursed was ful yoreC
I am so wounded as ye may wel seenB
That I am lost almost it smert so soreC
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Virgine that art so noble of apparaileN
And ledest us into the hye tourC
Of Paradys thou me wisse and counsaileN
How I may have thi grace and thi socourC
All have I ben in filthe and in errourC
Ladi unto that court thou me ajourneB
That cleped is thi bench O freshe flourC
Ther as that merci evere shal sojourneB
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Xristus thi sone that in this world alighteA
Upon the cros to suffre his passiounB
And eek that Longius his herte pighteA
And made his herte blood to renne adounB
And al was this for my salvaciounB
And I to him am fals and eek unkyndeA
And yit he wole not my dampnaciounB
This thanke I yow socour of al mankyndeA
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Ysaac was figure of his deth certeynB
That so fer forth his fader wolde obeyeH
That him ne roughte nothing to be slayn Riv pH
Right soo thi Sone list as a lamb to deyeH
Now ladi ful of merci I yow preyeH
Sith he his merci mesured so largeO
Be ye not skant for alle we singe and seyeH
That ye ben from vengeaunce ay oure targeO
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Zacharie yow clepeth the open welleN
To wasshe sinful soule out of his giltA
Therfore this lessoun oughte I wel to telleN
That nere thi tender herte we were spiltA
Now ladi bryghte sith thou canst and wiltA
Ben to the seed of Adam merciableN
Bring us to that palais that is biltA
To penitentes that ben to merci able AmenB

Geoffrey Chaucer



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