Lamentation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABABACDDEFFEEEGG HHIJIJJJKKLLKIMNOO NPP J MMQMMR J MMSMMS J IIHTTH N IIUVVU| I read upon that book | A |
| Which down the golden gulf doth let us look | A |
| On the sweet days of pastoral majesty | B |
| I read upon that book | A |
| How when the Shepherd Prince did flee | B |
| Red Esau's twin he desolate took | A |
| The stone for a pillow then he fell on sleep | C |
| And lo there was a ladder Lo there hung | D |
| A ladder from the star place and it clung | D |
| To the earth it tied her so to heaven and O | E |
| There fluttered wings | F |
| Then were ascending and descending things | F |
| That stepped to him where he lay low | E |
| Then up the ladder would a drifting go | E |
| This feathered brood of heaven and show | E |
| Small as white flakes in winter that are blown | G |
| Together underneath the great white throne | G |
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| When I had shut the book I said | H |
| Now as for me my dreams upon my bed | H |
| Are not like Jacob's dream | I |
| Yet I have got it in my life yes I | J |
| And many more it doth not us beseem | I |
| Therefore to sigh | J |
| Is there not hung a ladder in our sky | J |
| Yea and moreover all the way up on high | J |
| Is thickly peopled with the prayers of men | K |
| We have no dream What then | K |
| Like wing d wayfarers the height they scale | L |
| By Him that offers them they shall prevail | L |
| The prayers of men | K |
| But where is found a prayer for me | I |
| How should I pray | M |
| My heart is sick and full of strife | N |
| I heard one whisper with departing breath | O |
| 'Suffer us not for any pains of death | O |
| To fall from Thee ' | - |
| But O the pains of life the pains of life | N |
| There is no comfort now and naught to win | P |
| But yet I will begin | P |
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| I | J |
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| Preserve to me my wealth I do not say | M |
| For that is wasted away | M |
| And much of it was cankered ere it went | Q |
| Preserve to me my health I cannot say | M |
| For that upon a day | M |
| Went after other delights to banishment | R |
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| II | J |
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| What can I pray Give me forgetfulness | M |
| No I would still possess | M |
| Past away smiles though present fronts be stern | S |
| Give me again my kindred Nay not so | M |
| Not idle prayers We know | M |
| They that have crossed the river cannot return | S |
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| III | J |
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| I do not pray Comfort me comfort me | I |
| For how should comfort be | I |
| O O that cooing mouth that little white head | H |
| No but I pray If it be not too late | T |
| Open to me the gate | T |
| That I may find my babe when I am dead | H |
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| IV | N |
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| Show me the path I had forgotten Thee | I |
| When I was happy and free | I |
| Walking down here in the gladsome light o' the sun | U |
| But now I come and mourn O set my feet | V |
| In the road to Thy blest seat | V |
| And for the rest O God Thy will be done | U |
Jean Ingelow
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