The Vaudois Teacher Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDDE FCCCGHIH JCKCLHF JMCMNOD FPCPQRS RTDTFUVU VJFJVTFT| 'O Lady fair these silks of mine | A |
| are beautiful and rare | B |
| The richest web of the Indian loom which beauty's | C |
| queen might wear | B |
| And my pearls are pure as thy own fair neck with whose | C |
| radiant light they vie | D |
| I have brought them with me a weary way will my | D |
| gentle lady buy ' | E |
| - | |
| The lady smiled on the worn old man through the | F |
| dark and clustering curls | C |
| Which veiled her brow as she bent to view his | C |
| silks and glittering pearls | C |
| And she placed their price in the old man's hand | G |
| and lightly turned away | H |
| But she paused at the wanderer's earnest call | I |
| 'My gentle lady stay | H |
| - | |
| 'O lady fair I have yet a gem which a purer | J |
| lustre flings | C |
| Than the diamond flash of the jewelled crown on | K |
| the lofty brow of kings | C |
| A wonderful pearl of exceeding price whose virtue | L |
| shall not decay | H |
| Whose light shall be as a spell to thee and a | F |
| blessing on thy way ' | - |
| - | |
| The lady glanced at the mirroring steel where her | J |
| form of grace was seen | M |
| Where her eye shone clear and her dark locks | C |
| waved their clasping pearls between | M |
| 'Bring forth thy pearl of exceeding worth thou | N |
| traveller gray and old | O |
| And name the price of thy precious gem and my | D |
| page shall count thy gold ' | - |
| - | |
| The cloud went off from the pilgrim's brow as a | F |
| small and meagre book | P |
| Unchased with gold or gem of cost from his | C |
| folding robe he took | P |
| 'Here lady fair is the pearl of price may it prove | Q |
| as such to thee | R |
| Nay keep thy gold I ask it not for the word of | S |
| God is free ' | - |
| - | |
| The hoary traveller went his way but the gift he | R |
| left behind | T |
| Hath had its pure and perfect work on that high | D |
| born maiden's mind | T |
| And she hath turned from the pride of sin to the | F |
| lowliness of truth | U |
| And given her human heart to God in its beautiful | V |
| hour of youth | U |
| - | |
| And she hath left the gray old halls where an evil | V |
| faith had power | J |
| The courtly knights of her father's train and the | F |
| maidens of her bower | J |
| And she hath gone to the Vaudois vales by lordly | V |
| feet untrod | T |
| Where the poor and needy of earth are rich in the | F |
| perfect love of God | T |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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