St. Peter's Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGHG IJIJ KLKM NONO KKKK PQPQ BRBS OTOT UKVK WVWV KKKK XYXY KZKZ ZA2ZA2 B2C2B2C2 VZVZ

Thou thrice denied yet thrice belovedA
Watch by Thine own forgiven friendB
In sharpest perils faithful provedC
Let his soul love Thee to the endB
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The prayer is heard else why so deepD
His slumber on the eve of deathE
And wherefore smiles he in his sleepD
As one who drew celestial breathE
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He loves and is beloved againF
Can his soul choose but be at restG
Sorrow hath fled away and PainH
Dares not invade the guarded nestG
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He dearly loves and not aloneI
For his winged thoughts are soaring highJ
Where never yet frail heart was knownI
To breathe its vain Affection's sighJ
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He loves and weeps but more than tearsK
Have sealed Thy welcome and his loveL
One look lives in him and endearsK
Crosses and wrongs where'er he roveM
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That gracious chiding look Thy callN
To win him to himself and TheeO
Sweetening the sorrow of his fallN
Which else were rued too bitterlyO
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E'en through the veil of sheep it shinesK
The memory of that kindly glanceK
The Angel watching by divinesK
And spares awhile his blissful tranceK
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Or haply to his native lakeP
His vision wafts him back to talkQ
With JESUS ere His flight He takeP
As in that solemn evening walkQ
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When to the bosom of His friendB
The Shepherd He whose name is GoodR
Did His dear lambs and sheep commendB
Both bought and nourished with His bloodS
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Then laid on him th' inverted treeO
Which firm embraced with heart and armT
Might cast o'er hope and memoryO
O'er life and death its awful charmT
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With brightening heart he bears it onU
His passport through this eternal gatesK
To his sweet home so nearly wonV
He seems as by the door he waitsK
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The unexpressive notes to hearW
Of angel song and angel motionV
Rising and falling on the earW
Like waves in Joy's unbounded oceanV
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His dream is changed the Tyrant's voiceK
Calls to that last of glorious deedsK
But as he rises to rejoiceK
Not Herod but an Angel leadsK
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He dreams he sees a lamp flash brightX
Glancing around his prison roomY
But 'tis a gleam of heavenly lightX
That fills up all the ample gloomY
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The flame that in a few short yearsK
Deep through the chambers of the deadZ
Shall pierce and dry the fount of tearsK
Is waving o'er his dungeon bedZ
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Touched he upstarts his chains unbindZ
Through darksome vault up massy stairA2
His dizzy doubting footsteps windZ
To freedom and cool moonlight airA2
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Then all himself all joy and calmB2
Though for a while his hand foregoC2
Just as it touched the martyr's palmB2
He turns him to his task belowC2
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The pastoral staff the keys of HeavenV
To wield a while in grey haired mightZ
Then from his cross to spring forgivenV
And follow JESUS out of sightZ

John Keble



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