The Gospel Women 12: Mary Magdalene Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIHI JKJK LCLC MNMN OPOP QRSR TUTU VWVW| With wandering eyes and aimless zeal | A |
| She hither thither goes | B |
| Her speech her motions all reveal | A |
| A mind without repose | B |
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| She climbs the hills she haunts the sea | C |
| By madness tortured driven | D |
| One hour's forgetfulness would be | C |
| A gift from very heaven | D |
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| She slumbers into new distress | E |
| The night is worse than day | F |
| Exulting in her helplessness | G |
| Hell's dogs yet louder bay | F |
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| The demons blast her to and fro | H |
| She has no quiet place | I |
| Enough a woman still to know | H |
| A haunting dim disgrace | I |
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| A human touch a pang of death | J |
| And in a low delight | K |
| Thou liest waiting for new breath | J |
| For morning out of night | K |
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| Thou risest up the earth is fair | L |
| The wind is cool thou art free | C |
| Is it a dream of hell's despair | L |
| Dissolves in ecstasy | C |
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| That man did touch thee Eyes divine | M |
| Make sunrise in thy soul | N |
| Thou seest love in order shine | M |
| His health hath made thee whole | N |
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| Thou sharing in the awful doom | O |
| Didst help thy Lord to die | P |
| Then weeping o'er his empty tomb | O |
| Didst hear him Mary cry | P |
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| He stands in haste he cannot stop | Q |
| Home to his God he fares | R |
| Go tell my brothers I go up | S |
| To my Father mine and theirs | R |
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| Run Mary lift thy heavenly voice | T |
| Cry cry and heed not how | U |
| Make all the new risen world rejoice | T |
| Its first apostle thou | U |
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| What if old tales of thee have lied | V |
| Or truth have told thou art | W |
| All safe with him whate'er betide | V |
| Dwell'st with him in God's heart | W |
George Macdonald
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