The Pinafore Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM NLNL OPQP RSRS PTPT| When peevish flaws his soul have stirred | A |
| To fretful tears for crossed desires | B |
| Obedient to his mother's word | A |
| My child to banishment retires | C |
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| As disappears the moon when wind | D |
| Heaps miles of mist her visage o'er | E |
| So vanisheth his face behind | D |
| The cloud of his white pinafore | E |
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| I cannot then come near my child | F |
| A gulf between of gainful loss | G |
| He to the infinite exiled | F |
| I waiting for I cannot cross | G |
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| Ah then what wonder passing show | H |
| The Isis veil behind it brings | I |
| Like that self coffined creatures know | H |
| Remembering legs foreseeing wings | I |
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| Mysterious moment When or how | J |
| Is the bewildering change begun | K |
| Hid in far deeps the awful now | J |
| When turns his being to the sun | K |
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| A light goes up behind his eyes | L |
| A still small voice behind his ears | M |
| A listing wind about him sighs | L |
| And lo the inner landscape clears | M |
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| Hid by that screen a wondrous shine | N |
| Is gathering for a sweet surprise | L |
| As Moses grew in dark divine | N |
| Too radiant for his people's eyes | L |
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| For when the garment sinks again | O |
| Outbeams a brow of heavenly wile | P |
| Clear as a morning after rain | Q |
| And sunny with a perfect smile | P |
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| Oh would that I the secret knew | R |
| Of hiding from my evil part | S |
| And turning to the lovely true | R |
| The open windows of my heart | S |
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| Lord in thy skirt love's tender gaol | P |
| Hide thou my selfish heart's disgrace | T |
| Fill me with light and then unveil | P |
| To friend and foe a friendly face | T |
George Macdonald
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