Third Sunday In Advent Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD DDEFFE GGHIIH JKLMML NNOPPO QQRSSR TTUVVU WWVXXD YYZSSZ DDA2B2B2A2 YYUC2C2C2 D2D2E2MME2| What went ye out into the wilderness to see A reed shaken | A |
| with the wind But what went ye out for to see A | B |
| prophet yea I say unto you and more than a prophet St | C |
| Matthew xi | D |
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| What went ye out to see | D |
| O'er the rude sandy lea | D |
| Where stately Jordan flows by many a palm | E |
| Or where Gennesaret's wave | F |
| Delights the flowers to lave | F |
| That o'er her western slope breathe airs of balm | E |
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| All through the summer night | G |
| Those blossoms red and bright | G |
| Spread their soft breasts unheeding to the breeze | H |
| Like hermits watching still | I |
| Around the sacred hill | I |
| Where erst our Saviour watched upon His knees | H |
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| The Paschal moon above | J |
| Seems like a saint to rove | K |
| Left shining in the world with Christ alone | L |
| Below the lake's still face | M |
| Sleeps sweetly in th' embrace | M |
| Of mountains terrac'd high with mossy stone | L |
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| Here may we sit and dream | N |
| Over the heavenly theme | N |
| Till to our soul the former days return | O |
| Till on the grassy bed | P |
| Where thousands once He fed | P |
| The world's incarnate Maker we discern | O |
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| O cross no more the main | Q |
| Wandering so will and vain | Q |
| To count the reeds that tremble in the wind | R |
| On listless dalliance bound | S |
| Like children gazing round | S |
| Who on God's works no seal of Godhead find | R |
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| Bask not in courtly bower | T |
| Or sun bright hall of power | T |
| Pass Babel quick and seek the holy land | U |
| From robes of Tyrian dye | V |
| Turn with undazzled eye | V |
| To Bethlehem's glade or Carmel's haunted strand | U |
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| Or choose thee out a cell | W |
| In Kedron's storied dell | W |
| Beside the springs of Love that never die | V |
| Among the olives kneel | X |
| The chill night blast to feel | X |
| And watch the Moon that saw thy Master's agony | D |
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| Then rise at dawn of day | Y |
| And wind thy thoughtful way | Y |
| Where rested once the Temple's stately shade | Z |
| With due feet tracing round | S |
| The city's northern bound | S |
| To th' other holy garden where the Lord was laid | Z |
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| Who thus alternate see | D |
| His death and victory | D |
| Rising and falling as on angel wings | A2 |
| They while they seem to roam | B2 |
| Draw daily nearer home | B2 |
| Their heart untravell'd still adores the King of kings | A2 |
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| Or if at home they stay | Y |
| Yet are they day by day | Y |
| In spirit journeying through the glorious land | U |
| Not for light Fancy's reed | C2 |
| Nor Honour's purple meed | C2 |
| Nor gifted Prophet's lore nor Science' wondrous wand | C2 |
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| But more than Prophet more | D2 |
| Than Angels can adore | D2 |
| With face unveiled is He they go to seek | E2 |
| Blessed be God Whose grace | M |
| Shows Him in every place | M |
| To homeliest hearts of pilgrims pure and meek | E2 |
John Keble
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