To A Missal Of The Thirteenth Century Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD CCDD DDCC DDDD AADD DDEE FFGG DDDDCCDD| Missal of the Gothic age | A |
| Missal with the blazoned page | A |
| Whence O Missal hither come | B |
| From what dim scriptorium | B |
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| Whose the name that wrought thee thus | C |
| Ambrose or Theophilus | C |
| Bending through the waning light | D |
| O'er thy vellum scraped and white | D |
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| Weaving 'twixt thy rubric lines | C |
| Sprays and leaves and quaint designs | C |
| Setting round thy border scrolled | D |
| Buds of purple and of gold | D |
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| Ah a wondering brotherhood | D |
| Doubtless by that artist stood | D |
| Raising o'er his careful ways | C |
| Little choruses of praise | C |
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| Glad when his deft hand would paint | D |
| Strife of Sathanas and Saint | D |
| Or in secret coign entwist | D |
| Jest of cloister humourist | D |
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| Well the worker earned his wage | A |
| Bending o'er the blazoned page | A |
| Tired the hand and tired the wit | D |
| Ere the final Explicit | D |
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| Not as ours the books of old | D |
| Things that steam can stamp and fold | D |
| Not as ours the books of yore | E |
| Rows of type and nothing more | E |
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| Then a book was still a Book | F |
| Where a wistful man might look | F |
| Finding something through the whole | G |
| Beating like a human soul | G |
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| In that growth of day by day | D |
| When to labour was to pray | D |
| Surely something vital passed | D |
| To the patient page at last | D |
| Something that one still perceives | C |
| Vaguely present in the leaves | C |
| Something from the worker lent | D |
| Something mute but eloquent | D |
Henry Austin Dobson
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