The Annunciation And Passion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCAADDEEAFGGHIAJKL AAMMAAAANNFFKLAAAALH DDOPDA| TAMELY frail body abstain to day to day | A |
| My soul eats twice Christ hither and away | A |
| She sees Him man so like God made in this | B |
| That of them both a circle emblem is | C |
| Whose first and last concur this doubtful day | A |
| Of feast or fast Christ came and went away | A |
| She sees Him nothing twice at once who's all | D |
| She sees a cedar plant itself and fall | D |
| Her Maker put to making and the head | E |
| Of life at once not yet alive yet dead | E |
| She sees at once the Virgin Mother stay | A |
| Reclused at home public at Golgotha | F |
| Sad and rejoiced she's seen at once and seen | G |
| At almost fifty and at scarce fifteen | G |
| At once a son is promised her and gone | H |
| Gabriell gives Christ to her He her to John | I |
| Not fully a mother she's in orbity | A |
| At once receiver and the legacy | J |
| All this and all between this day hath shown | K |
| Th' abridgement of Christ's story which makes one | L |
| As in plain maps the furthest west is east | A |
| Of th' angels Ave and Consummatum est | A |
| How well the Church God's Court of Faculties | M |
| Deals in sometimes and seldom joining these | M |
| As by the self fix'd Pole we never do | A |
| Direct our course but the next star thereto | A |
| Which shows where th'other is and which we say | A |
| Because it strays not far doth never stray | A |
| So God by His Church nearest to him we know | N |
| And stand firm if we by her motion go | N |
| His Spirit as His fiery pillar doth | F |
| Lead and His Church as cloud to one end both | F |
| This Church by letting those days join hath shown | K |
| Death and conception in mankind is one | L |
| Or 'twas in Him the same humility | A |
| That He would be a man and leave to be | A |
| Or as creation He hath made as God | A |
| With the last judgment but one period | A |
| His imitating spouse would join in one | L |
| Manhood's extremes He shall come He is gone | H |
| Or as though one blood drop which thence did fall | D |
| Accepted would have served He yet shed all | D |
| So though the least of His pains deeds or words | O |
| Would busy a life she all this day affords | P |
| This treasure then in gross my soul uplay | D |
| And in my life retail it every day | A |
John Donne
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