St. Alphonsus Rodriguez Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBCCB CCDCCD| Laybrother of the Society of Jesus | A |
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| Honour is flashed off exploit so we say | B |
| And those strokes once that gashed flesh or galled shield | C |
| Should tongue that time now trumpet now that field | C |
| And on the fighter forge his glorious day | B |
| On Christ they do and on the martyr may | B |
| But be the war within the brand we wield | C |
| Unseen the heroic breast not outward steeled | C |
| Earth hears no hurtle then from fiercest fray | B |
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| Yet God that hews mountain and continent | C |
| Earth all out who with trickling increment | C |
| Veins violets and tall trees makes more and more | D |
| Could crowd career with conquest while there went | C |
| Those years and years by of world without event | C |
| That in Majorca Alfonso watched the door | D |
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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