The Gospel Women 16: The Woman That Was A Sinner Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD ECEC FGHG ICIC JDKD CCCC ICIC CCCC LMLM NONO PQPQ RSRS TCTC CUCV| His face his words her heart awoke | A |
| Awoke her slumbering truth | B |
| She judged him well her bonds she broke | A |
| And fled to him for ruth | B |
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| With tears she washed his weary feet | C |
| She wiped them with her hair | D |
| Her kisses call them not unmeet | C |
| When they were welcome there | D |
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| What saint a richer crown could throw | E |
| At his love royal feet | C |
| Her tears her lips her hair down go | E |
| His reign begun to greet | C |
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| His holy manhood's perfect worth | F |
| Owns her a woman still | G |
| It is impossible henceforth | H |
| For her to stoop to ill | G |
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| Her to herself his words restore | I |
| The radiance to the day | C |
| A horror to herself no more | I |
| Not yet a cast away | C |
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| Her hands and kisses ointment tears | J |
| Her gathered wiping hair | D |
| Her love her shame her hopes her fears | K |
| Mingle in worship rare | D |
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| Thou Mary too thy hair didst spread | C |
| To wipe the anointed feet | C |
| Nor didst thou only bless his head | C |
| With precious spikenard sweet | C |
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| But none say thou thy tears didst pour | I |
| To wash his parched feet first | C |
| Of tears thou couldst not have such store | I |
| As from this woman burst | C |
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| If not in love she first be read | C |
| Her queen of sorrow greet | C |
| Mary do thou anoint his head | C |
| And let her crown his feet | C |
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| Simon her kisses will not soil | L |
| Her tears are pure as rain | M |
| The hair for him she did uncoil | L |
| Had been baptized in pain | M |
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| Lo God hath pardoned her so much | N |
| Love all her being stirs | O |
| His love to his poor child is such | N |
| That it hath wakened hers | O |
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| But oh rejoice ye sisters pure | P |
| Who scarce can know her case | Q |
| There is no sin but has its cure | P |
| Its all consuming grace | Q |
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| He did not leave her soul in hell | R |
| 'Mong shards the silver dove | S |
| But raised her pure that she might tell | R |
| Her sisters how to love | S |
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| She gave him all your best love can | T |
| Despised rejected sad | C |
| Sure never yet had mighty man | T |
| Such homage as he had | C |
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| Jesus by whose forgiveness sweet | C |
| Her love grew so intense | U |
| Earth's sinners all come round thy feet | C |
| Lord make no difference | V |
George Macdonald
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