Monday Before Easter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDCDEE FBGBHH BIBIJK LMLMNN OPPPBB PQPQEE RSRSCT UVUVPP PWPWBB BWBEII| Doubtless Thou art our Father though Abraham be ignorant of | A |
| us and Israel acknowledge us not Isaiah lxiii | B |
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| Father to me thou art and mother dear | C |
| And brother too kind husband of my heart | D |
| So speaks Andromache in boding fear | C |
| Ere from her last embrace her hero part | D |
| So evermore by Faith's undying glow | E |
| We own the Crucified in weal or woe | E |
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| Strange to our ears the church bells of our home | F |
| This fragrance of our old paternal fields | B |
| May be forgotten and the time may come | G |
| When the babe's kiss no sense of pleasure yields | B |
| E'en to the doting mother but Thine own | H |
| Thou never canst forget nor leave alone | H |
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| There are who sigh that no fond heart is theirs | B |
| None loves them best O vain and selfish sigh | I |
| Out of the bosom of His love He spares | B |
| The Father spares the Son for thee to die | I |
| For thee He died for thee He lives again | J |
| O'er thee He watches in His boundless reign | K |
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| Thou art as much His care as if beside | L |
| Nor man nor angel lived in Heaven or earth | M |
| Thus sunbeams pour alike their glorious tide | L |
| To light up worlds or wake an insect's mirth | M |
| They shine and shine with unexhausted store | N |
| Thou art thy Saviour's darling seek no more | N |
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| On thee and thine thy warfare and thine end | O |
| E'en in His hour of agony He thought | P |
| When ere the final pang His soul should rend | P |
| The ransomed spirits one by one were brought | P |
| To His mind's eye two silent nights and days | B |
| In calmness for His far seen hour He stays | B |
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| Ye vaulted cells where martyred seers of old | P |
| Far in the rocky walls of Sion sleep | Q |
| Green terraces and arched fountains cold | P |
| Where lies the cypress shade so still and deep | Q |
| Dear sacred haunts of glory and of woe | E |
| Help us one hour to trace His musings high and low | E |
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| One heart ennobling hour It may not be | R |
| The unearthly thoughts have passed from earth away | S |
| And fast as evening sunbeams from the sea | R |
| Thy footsteps all in Sion's deep decay | S |
| Were blotted from the holy ground yet dear | C |
| Is every stone of hers for Thou want surely here | T |
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| There is a spot within this sacred dale | U |
| That felt Thee kneeling touched Thy prostrate brow | V |
| One Angel knows it O might prayer avail | U |
| To win that knowledge sure each holy vow | V |
| Less quickly from the unstable soul would fade | P |
| Offered where Christ in agony was laid | P |
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| Might tear of ours once mingle with the blood | P |
| That from His aching brow by moonlight fell | W |
| Over the mournful joy our thoughts would brood | P |
| Till they had framed within a guardian spell | W |
| To chase repining fancies as they rise | B |
| Like birds of evil wing to mar our sacrifice | B |
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| So dreams the heart self flattering fondly dreams | B |
| Else wherefore when the bitter waves o'erflow | W |
| Miss we the light Gethsemane that streams | B |
| From thy dear name where in His page of woe | E |
| It shines a pale kind star in winter's sky | I |
| Who vainly reads it there in vain had seen Him die | I |
John Keble
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