Trinity Sunday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CCC DAD EEE FFF GGG HII FFF JJJ KKK LLL MMM NNN FFF MMM FFF OOO PPP QQQ MMM LLL CCC| If I have told you earthly things and ye believe not how shall ye | A |
| believe if I tell you of heavenly things St John iii | B |
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| Creator Saviour strengthening Guide | C |
| Now on Thy mercy's ocean wide | C |
| Far out of sight we seem to glide | C |
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| Help us each hour with steadier eye | D |
| To search the deepening mystery | A |
| The wonders of Thy sea and sky | D |
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| The blessed Angels look and long | E |
| To praise Thee with a worthier song | E |
| And yet our silence does Thee wrong | E |
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| Along the Church's central space | F |
| The sacred weeks with unfelt pace | F |
| Hath borne us on from grace to grace | F |
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| As travellers on some woodland height | G |
| When wintry suns are gleaming bright | G |
| Lose in arched glades their tangled sight | G |
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| By glimpses such as dreamers love | H |
| Through her grey veil the leafless grove | I |
| Shows where the distant shadows rove | I |
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| Such trembling joy the soul o'er awes | F |
| As nearer to Thy shrine she draws | F |
| And now before the choir we pause | F |
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| The door is closed but soft and deep | J |
| Around the awful arches sweep | J |
| Such airs as soothe a hermit's sleep | J |
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| From each carved nook and fretted bend | K |
| Cornice and gallery seem to send | K |
| Tones that with seraphs hymns might blend | K |
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| Three solemn parts together twine | L |
| In harmony's mysterious line | L |
| Three solemn aisles approach the shrine | L |
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| Yet all are One together all | M |
| In thoughts that awe but not appal | M |
| Teach the adoring heart to fall | M |
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| Within these walls each fluttering guest | N |
| Is gently lured to one safe nest | N |
| Without 'tis moaning and unrest | N |
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| The busy world a thousand ways | F |
| Is hurrying by nor ever stays | F |
| To catch a note of Thy dear praise | F |
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| Why tarries not her chariot wheel | M |
| That o'er her with no vain appeal | M |
| One gust of heavenly song might steal | M |
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| Alas for her Thy opening flowers | F |
| Unheeded breathe to summer showers | F |
| Unheard the music of Thy bowers | F |
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| What echoes from the sacred dome | O |
| The selfish spirit may o'ercome | O |
| That will not hear of love or home | O |
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| The heart that scorned a father's care | P |
| How can it rise in filial prayer | P |
| How an all seeing Guardian bear | P |
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| Or how shall envious brethren own | Q |
| A Brother on the eternal throne | Q |
| Their Father's joy their hops alone | Q |
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| How shall Thy Spirit's gracious wile | M |
| The sullen brow of gloom beguile | M |
| That frowns on sweet Affection's smile | M |
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| Eternal One Almighty Trine | L |
| Since Thou art ours and we are Thine | L |
| By all Thy love did once resign | L |
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| By all the grace Thy heavens still hide | C |
| We pray Thee keep us at Thy side | C |
| Creator Saviour strengthening Guide | C |
John Keble
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