The Virgin Mother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBA CCDDC DDEED FFGGF| Who is that goddess to whom men should pray | A |
| But her from whom their hearts have turned away | A |
| Out of whose virgin being they were born | B |
| Whose mother nature they have named in scorn | B |
| Calling its holy substance common clay | A |
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| Yet from this so despised earth was made | C |
| The milky whiteness of those queens who swayed | C |
| Their generations with a light caress | D |
| And from some image of whose loveliness | D |
| The heart built up high heaven when it prayed | C |
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| Lover your heart the heart on which it lies | D |
| Your eyes that gaze and those alluring eyes | D |
| Your lips the lips they kiss alike had birth | E |
| Within this dark divinity of earth | E |
| Within this mother being you despise | D |
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| Ah when I think this earth on which we tread | F |
| Hath borne these blossoms of the lovely dead | F |
| And made the living heart I love to beat | G |
| I look with sudden awe beneath my feet | G |
| As you with erring reverence overhead | F |
George William Russell
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