A Meditation Of St. Eligius Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFH IJHJ KLKL MNMN OPOP QRQR STSU| Queen Mary one day Jesus sent | A |
| To fetch some water legends tell | B |
| The little boy obedient | C |
| Drew a full pitcher from the well | B |
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| But as he raised it to his head | D |
| The water lipping with the rim | E |
| The handle broke and all was shed | D |
| Upon the stones about the brim | E |
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| His cloak upon the ground he laid | F |
| And in it gathered up the pool Proverbs xxx | G |
| Obedient there the water staid | F |
| And home he bore it plentiful | H |
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| Eligius said Tis fabled ill | I |
| The hands that all the world control | J |
| Had here been room for miracle | H |
| Had made his mother's pitcher whole | J |
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| Still some few drops for thirsty need | K |
| A poor invention even when told | L |
| In love of thee the Truth indeed | K |
| Like broken pitcher yet may hold | L |
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| Thy truth alas Lord once I spilt | M |
| I thought to bear the pitcher high | N |
| Upon the shining stones of guilt | M |
| I slipped and there the potsherds lie | N |
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| Master I cried no man will drink | O |
| No human thirst will e'er be stilled | P |
| Through me who sit upon the brink | O |
| My pitcher broke thy water spilled | P |
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| What will they do I waiting left | Q |
| They looked to me to bring thy law | R |
| The well is deep and sin bereft | Q |
| I nothing have wherewith to draw | R |
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| But as I sat in evil plight | S |
| With dry parched heart and sickened brain | T |
| Uprose in me the water bright | S |
| Thou gavest me thyself again | U |
George Macdonald
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