The Gospel Women 06: The Woman Whom Satan Had Bound Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHIH JKLK MNMN OPOP QRQR SFSF TUTU| For years eighteen she patient soul | A |
| Her eyes had graveward sent | B |
| Her earthly life was lapt in dole | A |
| She was so bowed and bent | B |
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| What words To her Who can be near | C |
| What tenderness of hands | D |
| Oh is it strength or fancy mere | C |
| New hope or breaking bands | D |
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| The pent life rushes swift along | E |
| Channels it used to know | F |
| Up up amid the wondering throng | E |
| She rises firm and slow | F |
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| To bend again in grateful awe | G |
| For will is power at length | H |
| In homage to the living Law | I |
| Who gives her back her strength | H |
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| Uplifter of the down bent head | J |
| Unbinder of the bound | K |
| Who seest all the burdened | L |
| Who only see the ground | K |
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| Although they see thee not nor cry | M |
| Thou watchest for the hour | N |
| To lift the forward beaming eye | M |
| To wake the slumbering power | N |
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| Thy hand will wipe the stains of time | O |
| From off the withered face | P |
| Upraise thy bowed old men in prime | O |
| Of youthful manhood's grace | P |
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| Like summer days from winter's tomb | Q |
| Shall rise thy women fair | R |
| Gray Death a shadow not a doom | Q |
| Lo is not anywhere | R |
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| All ills of life shall melt away | S |
| As melts a cureless woe | F |
| When by the dawning of the day | S |
| Surprised the dream must go | F |
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| I think thou Lord wilt heal me too | T |
| Whate'er the needful cure | U |
| The great best only thou wilt do | T |
| And hoping I endure | U |
George Macdonald
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