May Magnificat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEE EEDD EECC EEDD FFGG HHDD DDDD IIDD GGEE JJGC KKFF| May is Mary's month and I | A |
| Muse at that and wonder why | A |
| Her feasts follow reason | B |
| Dated due to season mdash | C |
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| Candlemas Lady Day | D |
| But the Lady Month May | D |
| Why fasten that upon her | E |
| With a feasting in her honour | E |
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| Is it only its being brighter | E |
| Than the most are must delight her | E |
| Is it opportunest | D |
| And flowers finds soonest | D |
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| Ask of her the mighty mother | E |
| Her reply puts this other | E |
| Question What is Spring mdash | C |
| Growth in every thing mdash | C |
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| Flesh and fleece fur and feather | E |
| Grass and greenworld all together | E |
| Star eyed strawberry breasted | D |
| Throstle above her nested | D |
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| Cluster of bugle blue eggs thin | F |
| Forms and warms the life within | F |
| And bird and blossom swell | G |
| In sod or sheath or shell | G |
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| All things rising all things sizing | H |
| Mary sees sympathising | H |
| With that world of good | D |
| Nature's motherhood | D |
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| Their magnifying of each its kind | D |
| With delight calls to mind | D |
| How she did in her stored | D |
| Magnify the Lord | D |
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| Well but there was more than this | I |
| Spring's universal bliss | I |
| Much had much to say | D |
| To offering Mary May | D |
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| When drop of blood and foam dapple | G |
| Bloom lights the orchard apple | G |
| And thicket and thorp are merry | E |
| With silver surfed cherry | E |
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| And azuring over greybell makes | J |
| Wood banks and brakes wash wet like lakes | J |
| And magic cuckoocall | G |
| Caps clears and clinches all mdash | C |
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| This ecstasy all through mothering earth | K |
| Tells Mary her mirth till Christ's birth | K |
| To remember and exultation | F |
| In God who was her salvation | F |
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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