The May Magnificat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD DDCC DDEE DDCC FFGG EECC CCCC HHCC GGDD IIGG JJFFMay 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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