The Passion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCCDD A EFEFFDD A GHIHHJJ KLMLLNN F FFDD OPOQPRR STSTTUV CWCWWWW WXW

IA
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Ere while of Musick and Ethereal mirthB
Wherwith the stage of Ayr and Earth did ringC
And joyous news of heav'nly Infants birthB
My muse with Angels did divide to singC
But headlong joy is ever on the wingC
In Wintry solstice like the shortn'd lightD
Soon swallow'd up in dark and long out living nightD
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IIA
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For now to sorrow must I tune my songE
And set my Harpe to notes of saddest woF
Which on our dearest Lord did sease er'e longE
Dangers and snares and wrongs and worse then soF
Which he for us did freely undergoF
Most perfect Heroe try'd in heaviest plightD
Of labours huge and hard too hard for human wightD
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IIIA
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He sov'ran Priest stooping his regall headG
That dropt with odorous oil down his fair eyesH
Poor fleshly Tabernacle enteredI
His starry front low rooft beneath the skiesH
O what a Mask was there what a disguiseH
Yet more the stroke of death he must abideJ
Then lies him meekly down fast by his Brethrens sideJ
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IV-
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These latter scenes confine my roving versK
To this Horizon is my Phoebus boundL
His Godlike acts and his temptations fierceM
And former sufferings other where are foundL
Loud o're the rest Cremona's Trump doth soundL
Me softer airs befit and softer stringsN
Of Lute or Viol still more apt for mournful thingsN
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V-
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Befriend me night best Patroness of grief-
Over the Pole thy thickest mantle throwF
And work my flatterd fancy to belief-
That Heav'n and Earth are colour'd with my woF
My sorrows are too dark for day to knowF
The leaves should all be black wheron I writeD
And letters where my tears have washt a wannish whiteD
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VI-
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See see the Chariot and those rushing wheelsO
That whirl'd the Prophet up at Chebar floodP
My spirit som transporting Cherub feelsO
To bear me where the Towers of Salem stoodQ
Once glorious Towers now sunk in guiltles bloodP
There doth my soul in holy vision sitR
In pensive trance and anguish and ecstatick fitR
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VII-
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Mine eye hath found that sad Sepulchral rockS
That was the Casket of Heav'ns richest storeT
And here though grief my feeble hands up lockS
Yet on the softned Quarry would I scoreT
My plaining vers as lively as beforeT
For sure so well instructed are my tearsU
They would fitly fall in order'd CharactersV
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VIII-
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I thence hurried on viewles wingC
Take up a weeping on the Mountains wildeW
The gentle neighbourhood of grove and springC
Would soon unboosom all their Echoes mildeW
And I for grief is easily beguildW
Might think th'infection of my sorrows boundW
Had got a race of mourners on som pregnant cloudW
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Note This subject the Author finding to be above the yeers he hadW
when he wrote it and nothing satisfi'd with what was begunX
left it unfinish'dW

John Milton



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