St. Mark's Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCD EEFGGF HHIJJI KKLMML NNOPPO QQRSTROh who shall dare in this frail scene | A |
On holiest happiest thoughts to lean | A |
On Friendship Kindred or on Love | B |
Since not Apostles' hands can clasp | C |
Each other in so firm a grasp | C |
But they shall change and variance prove | D |
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Yet deem not on such parting sad | E |
Shall dawn no welcome dear and glad | E |
Divided in their earthly race | F |
Together at the glorious goal | G |
Each leading many a rescued soul | G |
The faithful champions shall embrace | F |
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For e'en as those mysterious Four | H |
Who the bright whirling wheels upbore | H |
By Chebar in the fiery blast | I |
So on their tasks of love and praise | J |
This saints of God their several ways | J |
Right onward speed yet join at last | I |
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And sometimes e'en beneath the moon | K |
The Saviour gives a gracious boon | K |
When reconciled Christians meet | L |
And face to face and heart to heart | M |
High thoughts of holy love impart | M |
In silence meek or converse sweet | L |
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Companion of the Saints 'twas thine | N |
To taste that drop of peace divine | N |
When the great soldier of thy Lord | O |
Called thee to take his last farewell | P |
Teaching the Church with joy to tell | P |
The story of your love restored | O |
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O then the glory and the bliss | Q |
When all that pained or seemed amiss | Q |
Shall melt with earth and sin away | R |
When saints beneath their Saviour's eye | S |
Filled with each other's company | T |
Shall spend in love th' eternal day | R |
John Keble
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