Fifth Sunday In Lent Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CCDEED FFGHHG IIJKKJ LLMNNM OOPQQP NNRSSR TTUVVP WWXYYX ZZA2NNA2 B2C2LNNL D2D2E2F2G2E2 H2H2I2NNI2 J2GNNNN| And Moses said I will now turn aside and see this great | A |
| sight why the bush is not burnt Exodus iii | B |
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| The historic Muse from age to age | C |
| Through many a waste heart sickening page | C |
| Hath traced the works of Man | D |
| But a celestial call to day | E |
| Stays her like Moses on her way | E |
| The works of God to scan | D |
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| Far seen across the sandy wild | F |
| Where like a solitary child | F |
| He thoughtless roamed and free | G |
| One towering thorn was wrapt in flame | H |
| Bright without blaze it went and came | H |
| Who would not turn and see | G |
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| Along the mountain ledges green | I |
| The scattered sheep at will may glean | I |
| The Desert's spicy stores | J |
| The while with undivided heart | K |
| The shepherd talks with God apart | K |
| And as he talks adores | J |
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| Ye too who tend Christ's wildering flock | L |
| Well may ye gather round the rock | L |
| That once was Sion's hill | M |
| To watch the fire upon the mount | N |
| Still blazing like the solar fount | N |
| Yet unconsuming still | M |
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| Caught from that blaze by wrath Divine | O |
| Lost branches of the once loved vine | O |
| Now withered spent and sere | P |
| See Israel's sons like glowing brands | Q |
| Tossed wildly o'er a thousand lands | Q |
| For twice a thousand year | P |
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| God will not quench nor slay them quite | N |
| But lifts them like a beacon light | N |
| The apostate Church to scare | R |
| Or like pale ghosts that darkling roam | S |
| Hovering around their ancient home | S |
| But find no refuge there | R |
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| Ye blessed Angels if of you | T |
| There be who love the ways to view | T |
| Of Kings and Kingdoms here | U |
| And sure 'tis worth an Angel's gaze | V |
| To see throughout that dreary maze | V |
| God teaching love and fear | P |
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| Oh say in all the bleak expanse | W |
| Is there a spot to win your glance | W |
| So bright so dark as this | X |
| A hopeless faith a homeless race | Y |
| Yet seeking the most holy place | Y |
| And owning the true bliss | X |
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| Salted with fire they seem to show | Z |
| How spirits lost in endless woe | Z |
| May undecaying live | A2 |
| Oh sickening thought yet hold it fast | N |
| Long as this glittering world shall last | N |
| Or sin at heart survive | A2 |
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| And hark amid the flashing fire | B2 |
| Mingling with tones of fear and ire | C2 |
| Soft Mercy's undersong | L |
| 'Tis Abraham's God who speaks so loud | N |
| His people's cries have pierced the cloud | N |
| He sees He sees their wrong | L |
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| He is come down to break their chain | D2 |
| Though nevermore on Sion's fane | D2 |
| His visible ensign wave | E2 |
| 'Tis Sion wheresoe'er they dwell | F2 |
| Who with His own true Israel | G2 |
| Shall own Him strong to save | E2 |
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| He shall redeem them one by one | H2 |
| Where'er the world encircling sun | H2 |
| Shall see them meekly kneel | I2 |
| All that He asks on Israel's part | N |
| Is only that the captive heart | N |
| Its woe and burthen feel | I2 |
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| Gentiles with fixed yet awful eye | J2 |
| Turn ye this page of mystery | G |
| Nor slight the warning sound | N |
| Put off thy shoes from off thy feet | N |
| The place where man his God shall meet | N |
| Be sure is holy ground | N |
John Keble
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