Matrimony Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCB EFEFGGGF HIHIJJJI CKCKIIIK LMLBNNOB PQPQOOOQ RSTUVVVSThere is an awe in mortals' joy | A |
A deep mysterious fear | B |
Half of the heart will still employ | A |
As if we drew too near | B |
To Eden's portal and those fires | C |
That bicker round in wavy spires | D |
Forbidding to our frail desires | C |
What cost us once so dear | B |
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We cower before th' heart searching eye | E |
In rapture as its pain | F |
E'en wedded Love till Thou be nigh | E |
Dares not believe her gain | F |
Then in the air she fearless springs | G |
The breath of Heaven beneath her wings | G |
And leaves her woodnote wild and sings | G |
A tuned and measured strain | F |
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Ill fare the lay though soft as dew | H |
And free as air it fall | I |
That with Thine altar full in view | H |
Thy votaries would enthrall | I |
To a foul dream of heathen night | J |
Lifting her torch in Love's despite | J |
And scaring with base wild fire light | J |
The sacred nuptial hall | I |
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Far other strains far other fires | C |
Our marriage offering grace | K |
Welcome all chaste and kind desires | C |
With even matron pace | K |
Approaching down this hallowed aisle | I |
Where should ye seek Love's perfect smile | I |
But where your prayers were learned erewhile | I |
In her own native place | K |
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Where but on His benignest brow | L |
Who waits to bless you here | M |
Living he owned no nuptial vow | L |
No bower to Fancy dear | B |
Love's very self for Him no need | N |
To nurse on earth the heavenly seed | N |
Yet comfort in His eye we read | O |
For bridal joy and fear | B |
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'Tis He who clasps the marriage band | P |
And fits the spousal ring | Q |
Then leaves ye kneeling hand in hand | P |
Out of His stores to bring | Q |
His Father's dearest blessing shed | O |
Of old on Isaac's nuptial bed | O |
Now on the board before ye spread | O |
Of our all bounteous King | Q |
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All blessings of the breast and womb | R |
Of Heaven and earth beneath | S |
Of converse high and sacred home | T |
Are yours in life and death | U |
Only kneel on nor turn away | V |
From the pure shrine where Christ to day | V |
Will store each flower ye duteous lay | V |
For an eternal wreath | S |
John Keble
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