The Gospel Women 05: The Widow Of Nain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHIH JKJK LMNM HOHO LPLP OKOK QRQR KSKS TUTU UCUC| Forth from the city with the load | A |
| That makes the trampling low | B |
| They walk along the dreary road | A |
| That dust and ashes go | B |
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| The other way toward the gate | C |
| Their trampling strong and loud | D |
| With hope of liberty elate | C |
| Comes on another crowd | D |
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| Nearer and nearer draw the twain | E |
| One with a wailing cry | F |
| How could the Life let such a train | E |
| Of death and tears go by | F |
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| Weep not he said and touched the bier | G |
| They stand the dead who bear | H |
| The mother knows nor hope nor fear | I |
| He waits not for her prayer | H |
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| Young man I say to thee arise | J |
| Who hears he must obey | K |
| Up starts the body wide the eyes | J |
| Flash wonder and dismay | K |
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| The lips would speak as if they caught | L |
| Some converse sudden broke | M |
| When the great word the dead man sought | N |
| And Hades' silence woke | M |
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| The lips would speak the eyes' wild stare | H |
| Gives place to ordered sight | O |
| The murmur dies upon the air | H |
| The soul is dumb with light | O |
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| He brings no news he has forgot | L |
| Or saw with vision weak | P |
| Thou sees all our unseen lot | L |
| And yet thou dost not speak | P |
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| Hold'st thou the news as parent might | O |
| A too good gift away | K |
| Lest we should neither sleep at night | O |
| Nor do our work by day | K |
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| The mother leaves us not a spark | Q |
| Of her triumph over grief | R |
| Her tears alone have left their mark | Q |
| Upon the holy leaf | R |
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| Oft gratitude will thanks benumb | K |
| Joy will our laughter quell | S |
| May not Eternity be dumb | K |
| With things too good to tell | S |
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| Her straining arms her lost one hold | T |
| Question she asketh none | U |
| She trusts for all he leaves untold | T |
| Enough to clasp her son | U |
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| The ebb is checked the flow begun | U |
| Sent rushing to the gate | C |
| Death turns him backward to the sun | U |
| And life is yet our fate | C |
George Macdonald
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