Monday In Easter Week Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEDE FEFE GHGH IJIJ EEEE KDKD LMLM NOPQ RERE SESE ETET UVUV EWEX EYEY| Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons | A |
| but in every nation he that feareth Him and worketh | B |
| righteousness is accepted with Him Acts x | C |
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| Go up and watch the new born rill | D |
| Just trickling from its mossy bed | E |
| Streaking the heath clad hill | D |
| With a bright emerald thread | E |
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| Canst thou her bold career foretell | F |
| What rocks she shall o'erleap or rend | E |
| How far in Ocean's swell | F |
| Her freshening billows send | E |
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| Perchance that little brook shall flow | G |
| The bulwark of some mighty realm | H |
| Bear navies to and fro | G |
| With monarchs at their helm | H |
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| Or canst thou guess how far away | I |
| Some sister nymph beside her urn | J |
| Reclining night and day | I |
| 'Mid reeds and mountain fern | J |
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| Nurses her store with thine to blend | E |
| When many a moor and glen are past | E |
| Then in the wide sea end | E |
| Their spotless lives at last | E |
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| E'en so the course of prayer who knows | K |
| It springs in silence where it will | D |
| Springs out of sight and flows | K |
| At first a lonely rill | D |
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| But streams shall meet it by and by | L |
| From thousand sympathetic hearts | M |
| Together swelling high | L |
| Their chant of many parts | M |
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| Unheard by all but angel ears | N |
| The good Cornelius knelt alone | O |
| Nor dreamed his prayers and tears | P |
| Would help a world undone | Q |
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| The while upon his terraced roof | R |
| The loved Apostle to his Lord | E |
| In silent thought aloof | R |
| For heavenly vision soared | E |
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| Far o'er the glowing western main | S |
| His wistful brow was upward raised | E |
| Where like an angel's train | S |
| The burnished water blazed | E |
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| The saint beside the ocean prayed | E |
| This soldier in his chosen bower | T |
| Where all his eye surveyed | E |
| Seemed sacred in that hour | T |
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| To each unknown his brother's prayer | U |
| Yet brethren true in dearest love | V |
| Were they and now they share | U |
| Fraternal joys above | V |
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| There daily through Christ's open gate | E |
| They see the Gentile spirits press | W |
| Brightening their high estate | E |
| With dearer happiness | X |
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| What civic wreath for comrades saved | E |
| Shone ever with such deathless gleam | Y |
| Or when did perils braved | E |
| So sweet to veterans seem | Y |
John Keble
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