Wednesday Before Easter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CCDDEE FFBBGG HHIIJJKKLL MMNAOOPPQQ RSTTUUVVWWXX YYZLOOMMOOMM OOANOO OOANA2A2 OOOOGG MMBBOO| Saying Father if Thou be willing remove this cup from Me | A |
| nevertheless not My will but Thine be done St Luke xxii | B |
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| O Lord my God do thou Thy holy will | C |
| I will lie still | C |
| I will not stir lest I forsake Thine arm | D |
| And break the charm | D |
| Which lulls me clinging to my Father's breast | E |
| In perfect rest | E |
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| Wild fancy peace thou must not me beguile | F |
| With thy false smile | F |
| I know thy flatteries and thy cheating ways | B |
| Be silent Praise | B |
| Blind guide with siren voice and blinding all | G |
| That hear thy call | G |
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| Come Self devotion high and pure | H |
| Thoughts that in thankfulness endure | H |
| Though dearest hopes are faithless found | I |
| And dearest hearts are bursting round | I |
| Come Resignation spirit meek | J |
| And let me kiss thy placid cheek | J |
| And read in thy pale eye serene | K |
| Their blessing who by faith can wean | K |
| Their hearts from sense and learn to love | L |
| God only and the joys above | L |
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| They say who know the life divine | M |
| And upward gaze with eagle eyne | M |
| That by each golden crown on high | N |
| Rich with celestial jewelry | A |
| Which for our Lord's redeemed is set | O |
| There hangs a radiant coronet | O |
| All gemmed with pure and living light | P |
| Too dazzling for a sinner's sight | P |
| Prepared for virgin souls and them | Q |
| Who seek the martyr's diadem | Q |
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| Nor deem who to that bliss aspire | R |
| Must win their way through blood and fire | S |
| The writhings of a wounded heart | T |
| Are fiercer than a foeman's dart | T |
| Oft in Life's stillest shade reclining | U |
| In Desolation unrepining | U |
| Without a hope on earth to find | V |
| A mirror in an answering mind | V |
| Meek souls there are who little dream | W |
| Their daily strife an Angel's theme | W |
| Or that the rod they take so calm | X |
| Shall prove in Heaven a martyr's palm | X |
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| And there are souls that seem to dwell | Y |
| Above this earth so rich a spell | Y |
| Floats round their steps where'er they move | Z |
| From hopes fulfilled and mutual love | L |
| Such if on high their thoughts are set | O |
| Nor in the stream the source forget | O |
| If prompt to quit the bliss they know | M |
| Following the Lamb where'er He go | M |
| By purest pleasures unbeguiled | O |
| To idolise or wife or child | O |
| Such wedded souls our God shall own | M |
| For faultless virgins round His throne | M |
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| Thus everywhere we find our suffering God | O |
| And where He trod | O |
| May set our steps the Cross on Calvary | A |
| Uplifted high | N |
| Beams on the martyr host a beacon light | O |
| In open fight | O |
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| To the still wrestlings of the lonely heart | O |
| He doth impart | O |
| The virtue of his midnight agony | A |
| When none was nigh | N |
| Save God and one good angel to assuage | A2 |
| The tempest's rage | A2 |
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| Mortal if life smile on thee and thou find | O |
| All to thy mind | O |
| Think who did once from Heaven to Hell descend | O |
| Thee to befriend | O |
| So shalt thou dare forego at His dear call | G |
| Thy best thine all | G |
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| O Father not My will but Thine be done | M |
| So spake the Son | M |
| Be this our charm mellowing Earth's ruder noise | B |
| Of griefs and joys | B |
| That we may cling for ever to Thy breast | O |
| In perfect rest | O |
John Keble
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