Gunpowder Treason Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDCD EBEB FGFG HIHI JKLM NBNB OPOP AEAE BQBQ RSRS GTGE UVUV WNWN XAXA BYBY JZJA2| A thou hast testified of Me in Jerusalem so must thou bear | A |
| witness also at Rome Acts xxiii | B |
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| Beneath the burning eastern sky | C |
| The Cross was raised at morn | D |
| The widowed Church to weep stood by | C |
| The world to hate and scorn | D |
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| Now journeying westward evermore | E |
| We know the lonely Spouse | B |
| By the dear mark her Saviour bore | E |
| Traced on her patient brows | B |
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| At Rome she wears it as of old | F |
| Upon th' accursed hill | G |
| By monarchs clad in gems and gold | F |
| She goes a mourner still | G |
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| She mourns that tender hearts should bend | H |
| Before a meaner shrine | I |
| And upon Saint or Angel spend | H |
| The love that should be thine | I |
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| By day and night her sorrows fall | J |
| Where miscreant hands and rude | K |
| Have stained her pure ethereal pall | L |
| With many a martyr's blood | M |
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| And yearns not her parental heart | N |
| To hear THEIR secret sighs | B |
| Upon whose doubting way apart | N |
| Bewildering shadows rise | B |
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| Who to her side in peace would cling | O |
| But fear to wake and find | P |
| What they had deemed her genial wing | O |
| Was Error's soothing blind | P |
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| She treasures up each throbbing prayer | A |
| Come trembler come and pour | E |
| Into her bosom all thy care | A |
| For she has balm in store | E |
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| Her gentle teaching sweetly blends | B |
| With this clear light of Truth | Q |
| The aerial gleam that Fancy lends | B |
| To solemn thoughts in youth | Q |
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| If thou hast loved in hours of gloom | R |
| To dream the dead are near | S |
| And people all the lonely room | R |
| With guardian spirits dear | S |
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| Dream on the soothing dream at will | G |
| The lurid mist is o'er | T |
| That showed the righteous suffering still | G |
| Upon th' eternal shore | E |
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| If with thy heart the strains accord | U |
| That on His altar throne | V |
| Highest exalt thy glorious Lord | U |
| Yet leave Him most thine own | V |
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| Oh come to our Communion Feast | W |
| There present in the heart | N |
| As in the hands th' eternal Priest | W |
| Will His true self impart | N |
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| Thus should thy soul misgiving turn | X |
| Back to the enchanted air | A |
| Solace and warning thou mayst learn | X |
| From all that tempts thee there | A |
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| And oh by all the pangs and fears | B |
| Fraternal spirits know | Y |
| When for an elder's shame the tears | B |
| Of wakeful anguish flow | Y |
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| Speak gently of our sister's fall | J |
| Who knows but gentle love | Z |
| May win her at our patient call | J |
| The surer way to prove | A2 |
John Keble
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