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 NANAANABIncipit carmen secundum ordinem litterarum alphabeti | A |
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Almighty and al merciable queene | B |
To whom that al this world fleeth for socour | C |
To have relees of sinne of sorwe and teene | B |
Glorious virgine of alle floures flour | C |
To thee I flee confounded in errour | C |
Help and releeve thou mighti debonayre | C |
Have mercy on my perilous langour | C |
Venquisshed me hath my cruel adversaire | C |
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Bountee so fix hath in thin herte his tente | A |
That wel I wot thou wolt my socour bee | D |
Thou canst not warne him that with good entente | A |
Axeth thin helpe thin herte is ay so free | D |
Thou art largesse of pleyn felicitee | A |
Haven of refut of quiete and of reste | A |
Loo how that theeves sevene chasen mee | D |
Help lady bright er that my ship tobreste Riv p | D |
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Comfort is noon but in yow ladi deere | C |
For loo my sinne and my confusioun | B |
Which oughten not in thi presence appeere | C |
Han take on me a greevous accioun | B |
Of verrey right and desperacioun | B |
And as hi right thei mighten wel susteene | B |
That I were wurthi my dampnacioun | B |
Nere merci of you blisful hevene queene | B |
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Dowte is ther noon thou queen of misericorde | A |
That thou n'art cause of grace and merci heere | C |
God vouched sauf thurgh thee with us to accorde | A |
For certes Crystes blisful mooder deere | C |
Were now the bowe bent in swich maneere | C |
As it was first of justice and of ire | C |
The rightful God nolde of no mercy heere | C |
But thurgh thee han we grace as we desire | C |
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Evere hath myn hope of refut been in thee | D |
For heer biforn ful ofte in many a wyse | E |
Hast thou to misericorde receyved me | D |
But merci ladi at the grete assyse | E |
Whan we shule come bifore the hye justyse | E |
So litel fruit shal thanne in me be founde | A |
That but thou er that day correcte vice | E |
Of verrey right my werk wol me confounde | A |
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Fleeinge I flee for socour to thi tente | A |
Me for to hide from tempeste ful of dreede | A |
Biseeching yow that ye you not absente | A |
Thouh I be wikke O help yit at this neede | A |
Al have I ben a beste in wil and deede | A |
Yit ladi thou me clothe with thi grace | E |
Thin enemy and myn ladi tak heede | A |
Unto my deth in poynt is me to chace | E |
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Glorious mayde and mooder which that nevere | C |
Were bitter neither in erthe nor in see | E |
But ful of swetnesse and of merci evere | C |
Help that my Fader be not wroth with me | E |
Spek thou for I ne dar not him ysee | E |
So have I doon in erthe allas the while | F |
That certes but if thou my socour bee | E |
To stink eterne he wole my gost exile | F |
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He vouched sauf tel him as was his wille | G |
Bicome a man to have oure alliaunce | E |
And with his precious blood he wrot the bille | F |
Upon the crois as general acquitaunce | E |
To every penitent in ful creaunce | E |
And therfore ladi bright thou for us praye | H |
Thanne shalt thou bothe stinte al his grevaunce | E |
And make oure foo to failen of his praye | H |
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I wot it wel thou wolt ben oure socour | C |
Thou art so ful of bowntee in certeyn | B |
For whan a soule falleth in errour | C |
Thi pitee goth and haleth him ayein | B |
Thanne makest thou his pees with his sovereyn | B |
And bringest him out of the crooked strete | A |
Whoso thee loveth he shal not love in veyn | B |
That shal he fynde as he the lyf shal lete | A |
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Kalenderes enlumyned ben thei | D |
That in this world ben lighted with thi name | I |
And whoso goth to yow the righte wey | J |
Him thar not drede in soule to be lame | I |
Now queen of comfort sith thou art that same | I |
To whom I seeche for my medicyne | B |
Lat not my foo no more my wounde entame | I |
Myn hele into thin hand al I resygne | B |
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Ladi thi sorwe kan I not portreye | H |
Under the cros ne his greevous penaunce | E |
But for youre bothes peynes I yow preye | H |
Lat not oure alder foo make his bobaunce | E |
That he hath in his lystes of mischaunce | E |
Convict that ye bothe have bought so deere | C |
As I seide erst thou ground of oure substaunce | E |
Continue on us thi pitous eyen cleere | C |
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Moises that saugh the bush with flawmes rede | A |
Brenninge of which ther never a stikke brende | A |
Was signe of thin unwemmed maidenhede Riv p | E |
Thou art the bush on which ther gan descende | A |
The Holi Gost the which that Moyses wende | A |
Had ben a fyr and this was in figure | C |
Now ladi from the fyr thou us defende | A |
Which that in helle eternalli shal dure | C |
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Noble princesse that nevere haddest peere | C |
Certes if any comfort in us bee | E |
That cometh of thee thou Cristes mooder deere | C |
We han noon oother melodye or glee | E |
Us to rejoyse in oure adversitee | A |
Ne advocat noon that wole and dar so preye | H |
For us and that for litel hire as yee | H |
That helpen for an Ave Marie or tweye | H |
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O verrey light of eyen that ben blynde | A |
O verrey lust of labour and distresse | E |
O tresoreere of bountee to mankynde | A |
Thee whom God ches to mooder for humblesse | E |
From his ancille he made the maistresse | E |
Of hevene and erthe oure bille up for to beede | A |
This world awaiteth evere on thi goodnesse | E |
For thou ne failest nevere wight at neede | A |
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Purpos I have sum time for to enquere | C |
Wherfore and whi the Holi Gost thee soughte | A |
Whan Gabrielles vois cam to thin ere | C |
He not to werre us swich a wonder wroughte | A |
But for to save us that he sithen boughte | A |
Thanne needeth us no wepen us for to save | K |
But oonly ther we dide not as us oughte | A |
Doo penitence and merci axe and have | L |
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Queen of comfort yit whan I me bithinke | M |
That I agilt have bothe him and thee | H |
And that my soule is worthi for to sinke | M |
Allas I caityf whider may I flee | H |
Who shal unto thi Sone my mene bee | H |
Who but thiself that art of pitee welle | N |
Thou hast more reuthe on oure adversitee | A |
Than in this world might any tonge telle | N |
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Redresse me mooder and me chastise | E |
For certeynly my Faderes chastisinge | O |
That dar I nouht abiden in no wise | E |
So hidous is his rightful rekenynge | O |
Mooder of whom oure merci gan to springe | O |
Beth ye my juge and eek my soules leche | P |
For evere in you is pitee haboundinge | O |
To ech that wole of pitee you biseeche | P |
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Soth is that God ne granteth no pitee | A |
Withoute thee for God of his goodnesse | E |
Foryiveth noon but it like unto thee | H |
He hath thee maked vicaire and maistresse | E |
Of al this world and eek governouresse | E |
Of hevene and he represseth his justise | E |
After thi wil and therfore in witnesse | E |
He hath thee corowned in so rial wise | E |
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Temple devout ther God hath his woninge | O |
Fro which these misbileeved deprived been | B |
To you my soule penitent I bringe | O |
Receyve me I can no ferther fleen | B |
With thornes venymous O hevene queen | B |
For which the eerthe acursed was ful yore | C |
I am so wounded as ye may wel seen | B |
That I am lost almost it smert so sore | C |
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Virgine that art so noble of apparaile | N |
And ledest us into the hye tour | C |
Of Paradys thou me wisse and counsaile | N |
How I may have thi grace and thi socour | C |
All have I ben in filthe and in errour | C |
Ladi unto that court thou me ajourne | B |
That cleped is thi bench O freshe flour | C |
Ther as that merci evere shal sojourne | B |
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Xristus thi sone that in this world alighte | A |
Upon the cros to suffre his passioun | B |
And eek that Longius his herte pighte | A |
And made his herte blood to renne adoun | B |
And al was this for my salvacioun | B |
And I to him am fals and eek unkynde | A |
And yit he wole not my dampnacioun | B |
This thanke I yow socour of al mankynde | A |
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Ysaac was figure of his deth certeyn | B |
That so fer forth his fader wolde obeye | H |
That him ne roughte nothing to be slayn Riv p | H |
Right soo thi Sone list as a lamb to deye | H |
Now ladi ful of merci I yow preye | H |
Sith he his merci mesured so large | O |
Be ye not skant for alle we singe and seye | H |
That ye ben from vengeaunce ay oure targe | O |
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Zacharie yow clepeth the open welle | N |
To wasshe sinful soule out of his gilt | A |
Therfore this lessoun oughte I wel to telle | N |
That nere thi tender herte we were spilt | A |
Now ladi bryghte sith thou canst and wilt | A |
Ben to the seed of Adam merciable | N |
Bring us to that palais that is bilt | A |
To penitentes that ben to merci able Amen | B |
Geoffrey Chaucer
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