St. Philip And St. James Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDCD BCBC EFEF GHGH IDID JKJK LJLJ GMGM NJNJ BOBO PQPQ BOBO JRJS| Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted | A |
| but the rich in that he is made low St James i | B |
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| Dear is the morning gale of spring | C |
| And dear th' autumnal eve | D |
| But few delights can summer bring | C |
| A Poet's crown to weave | D |
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| Her bowers are mute her fountains dry | B |
| And ever Fancy's wing | C |
| Speed's from beneath her cloudless sky | B |
| To autumn or to spring | C |
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| Sweet is the infant's waking smile | E |
| And sweet the old man's rest | F |
| But middle age by no fond wile | E |
| No soothing calm is blest | F |
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| Still in the world's hot restless gleam | G |
| She plies her weary task | H |
| While vainly for some pleasant dream | G |
| Her wandering glances ask | H |
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| O shame upon thee listless heart | I |
| So sad a sigh to heave | D |
| As if thy SAVIOUR had no part | I |
| In thoughts that make thee grieve | D |
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| As if along His lonesome way | J |
| He had not borne for thee | K |
| Sad languors through the summer day | J |
| Storms on the wintry sea | K |
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| Youth's lightning flash of joy secure | L |
| Passed seldom o'er His spright | J |
| A well of serious thought and pure | L |
| Too deep for earthly light | J |
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| No spring was His no fairy gleam | G |
| For He by trial knew | M |
| How cold and bare what mortals dream | G |
| To worlds where all is true | M |
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| Then grudge not thou the anguish keen | N |
| Which makes thee like thy LORD | J |
| And learn to quit with eye serene | N |
| Thy youth's ideal hoard | J |
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| Thy treasured hopes and raptures high | B |
| Unmurmuring let them go | O |
| Nor grieve the bliss should quickly fly | B |
| Which CHRIST disdained to know | O |
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| Thou shalt have joy in sadness soon | P |
| The pure calm hope be thine | Q |
| Which brightens like the eastern moon | P |
| As day's wild lights decline | Q |
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| Thus souls by nature pitched too high | B |
| By sufferings plunged too low | O |
| Meet in the Church's middle sky | B |
| Half way 'twixt joy and woe | O |
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| To practise there the soothing lay | J |
| That sorrow best relieves | R |
| Thankful for all God takes away | J |
| Humbled by all He glass | S |
John Keble
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