The Gospel Women 10: Pilate's Wife Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIHI JKJK LDLD| Why came in dreams the low born man | A |
| Between thee and thy rest | B |
| In vain thy whispered message ran | A |
| Though justice was its quest | B |
| - | |
| Did some young ignorant angel dare | C |
| Not knowing what must be | D |
| Or blind with agony of care | C |
| To fly for help to thee | D |
| - | |
| I know not Rather I believe | E |
| Thou nobler than thy spouse | F |
| His rumoured grandeur didst receive | E |
| And sit with pondering brows | G |
| - | |
| Until thy maidens' gathered tale | H |
| With possible marvel teems | I |
| Thou sleepest and the prisoner pale | H |
| Returneth in thy dreams | I |
| - | |
| Well mightst thou suffer things not few | J |
| For his sake all the night | K |
| In pale eclipse he suffers who | J |
| Is of the world the light | K |
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| Precious it were to know thy dream | L |
| Of such a one as he | D |
| Perhaps of him we waking deem | L |
| As poor a verity | D |
George Macdonald
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