St. Mark's Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCD EEFGGF HHIJJI KKLMML NNOPPO QQRSTR| Oh 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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