Tuesday Before Easter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDAE FGHI JKLM NOPL QRLS TUVL WXSG YZA2A B2C2D2E2 F2MAG2 LKLH2 BLCP LI2J2L| They gave Him to drink wine mingled with myrrh but He | A |
| received in not St Mark xv | B |
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| Fill high the bowl and spice it well and pour | C |
| The dews oblivious for the Cross is sharp | D |
| The Cross is sharp and He | A |
| Is tenderer than a lamb | E |
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| He wept by Lazarus' grave how will He bear | F |
| This bed of anguish and His pale weak form | G |
| Is worn with many a watch | H |
| Of sorrow and unrest | I |
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| His sweat last night was as great drops of blood | J |
| And the sad burthen pressed Him so to earth | K |
| The very torturers paused | L |
| To help Him on His way | M |
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| Fill high the bowl benumb His aching sense | N |
| With medicined sleep O awful in Thy woe | O |
| The parching thirst of death | P |
| Is on Thee and Thou triest | L |
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| The slumb'rous potion bland and wilt not drink | Q |
| Not sullen nor in scorn like haughty man | R |
| With suicidal hand | L |
| Putting his solace by | S |
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| But as at first Thine all pervading look | T |
| Saw from Thy Father's bosom to the abyss | U |
| Measuring in calm presage | V |
| The infinite descent | L |
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| So to the end though now of mortal pangs | W |
| Made heir and emptied of Thy glory awhile | X |
| With unaverted eye | S |
| Thou meetest all the storm | G |
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| Thou wilt feel all that Thou mayst pity all | Y |
| And rather wouldst Thou wreathe with strong pain | Z |
| Than overcloud Thy soul | A2 |
| So clear in agony | A |
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| Or lose one glimpse of Heaven before the time | B2 |
| O most entire and perfect sacrifice | C2 |
| Renewed in every pulse | D2 |
| That on the tedious Cross | E2 |
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| Told the long hours of death as one by one | F2 |
| The life strings of that tender heart gave way | M |
| E'en sinners taught by Thee | A |
| Look Sorrow in the face | G2 |
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| And bid her freely welcome unbeguiled | L |
| By false kind solaces and spells of earth | K |
| And yet not all unsoothed | L |
| For when was Joy so dear | H2 |
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| As the deep calm that breathed Father forgive | B |
| Or Be with Me in Paradise to day | L |
| And though the strife be sore | C |
| Yet in His parting breath | P |
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| Love masters Agony the soul that seemed | L |
| Forsaken feels her present God again | I2 |
| And in her Father's arms | J2 |
| Contented dies away | L |
John Keble
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