The Gospel Women 04: The Syrophenician Woman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHIH JKJK LMLM NONO OOOO PQPQ| Grant Lord her prayer and let her go | A |
| She crieth after us | B |
| Nay to the dogs ye cast it so | A |
| Serve not a woman thus | B |
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| Their pride by condescension fed | C |
| He shapes with teaching tongue | D |
| It is not meet the children's bread | C |
| To little dogs be flung | D |
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| The words for tender heart so sore | E |
| His voice did seem to rue | F |
| The gentle wrath his countenance wore | E |
| With her had not to do | F |
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| He makes her share the hurt of good | G |
| Takes what she would have lent | H |
| That those proud men their evil mood | I |
| May see and so repent | H |
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| And that the hidden faith in her | J |
| May burst in soaring flame | K |
| With childhood deeper holier | J |
| Is birthright not the same | K |
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| Ill names of proud religion born | L |
| She'll wear the worst that comes | M |
| Will clothe her patient in their scorn | L |
| To share the healing crumbs | M |
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| Truth Lord and yet the puppies small | N |
| Under the table eat | O |
| The crumbs the little ones let fall | N |
| That is not thought unmeet | O |
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| The prayer rebuff could not amate | O |
| Was not like water spilt | O |
| O woman but thy faith is great | O |
| Be it even as thou wilt | O |
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| Thrice happy she who yet will dare | P |
| Who baffled prayeth still | Q |
| He if he may will grant her prayer | P |
| In fulness of her will | Q |
George Macdonald
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