The May Magnificat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD DDCC DDEE DDCC FFGG EECC CCCC HHCC GGDD IIGG JJFF| May is Mary's month and I | A |
| Muse at that and wonder why | A |
| Her feasts follow reason | B |
| Dated due to season | B |
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| Candlemas Lady Day | C |
| But the Lady Month May | C |
| Why fasten that upon her | D |
| With a feasting in her honour | D |
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| Is it only its being brighter | D |
| Than the most are must delight her | D |
| Is it opportunest | C |
| And flowers finds soonest | C |
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| Ask of her the mighty mother | D |
| Her reply puts this other | D |
| Question What is Spring | E |
| Growth in every thing | E |
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| Flesh and fleece fur and feather | D |
| Grass and greenworld all together | D |
| Star eyed strawberry breasted | C |
| Throstle above her nested | C |
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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 | E |
| Mary sees sympathising | E |
| With that world of good | C |
| Nature's motherhood | C |
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| Their magnifying of each its kind | C |
| With delight calls to mind | C |
| How she did in her stored | C |
| Magnify the Lord | C |
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| Well but there was more than this | H |
| Spring's universal bliss | H |
| Much had much to say | C |
| To offering Mary May | C |
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| When drop of blood and foam dapple | G |
| Bloom lights the orchard apple | G |
| And thicket and thorp are merry | D |
| With silver surfed cherry | D |
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| And azuring over greybell makes | I |
| Wood banks and brakes wash wet like lakes | I |
| And magic cuckoocall | G |
| Caps clears and clinches all | G |
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| This ecstasy all through mothering earth | J |
| Tells Mary her mirth till Christ's birth | J |
| To remember and exultation | F |
| In God who was her salvation | F |
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Maria Carman: Love this poem for its simplicity and purity just like Mary, our Mother.
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