The Passion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCCDD A EFEFFDD A GHIHHJJ KLMLLNN F FFDD OPOQPRR STSTTUV CWCWWWW WXWI | A |
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Ere while of Musick and Ethereal mirth | B |
Wherwith the stage of Ayr and Earth did ring | C |
And joyous news of heav'nly Infants birth | B |
My muse with Angels did divide to sing | C |
But headlong joy is ever on the wing | C |
In Wintry solstice like the shortn'd light | D |
Soon swallow'd up in dark and long out living night | D |
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II | A |
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For now to sorrow must I tune my song | E |
And set my Harpe to notes of saddest wo | F |
Which on our dearest Lord did sease er'e long | E |
Dangers and snares and wrongs and worse then so | F |
Which he for us did freely undergo | F |
Most perfect Heroe try'd in heaviest plight | D |
Of labours huge and hard too hard for human wight | D |
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III | A |
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He sov'ran Priest stooping his regall head | G |
That dropt with odorous oil down his fair eyes | H |
Poor fleshly Tabernacle entered | I |
His starry front low rooft beneath the skies | H |
O what a Mask was there what a disguise | H |
Yet more the stroke of death he must abide | J |
Then lies him meekly down fast by his Brethrens side | J |
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IV | - |
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These latter scenes confine my roving vers | K |
To this Horizon is my Phoebus bound | L |
His Godlike acts and his temptations fierce | M |
And former sufferings other where are found | L |
Loud o're the rest Cremona's Trump doth sound | L |
Me softer airs befit and softer strings | N |
Of Lute or Viol still more apt for mournful things | N |
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V | - |
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Befriend me night best Patroness of grief | - |
Over the Pole thy thickest mantle throw | F |
And work my flatterd fancy to belief | - |
That Heav'n and Earth are colour'd with my wo | F |
My sorrows are too dark for day to know | F |
The leaves should all be black wheron I write | D |
And letters where my tears have washt a wannish white | D |
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VI | - |
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See see the Chariot and those rushing wheels | O |
That whirl'd the Prophet up at Chebar flood | P |
My spirit som transporting Cherub feels | O |
To bear me where the Towers of Salem stood | Q |
Once glorious Towers now sunk in guiltles blood | P |
There doth my soul in holy vision sit | R |
In pensive trance and anguish and ecstatick fit | R |
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VII | - |
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Mine eye hath found that sad Sepulchral rock | S |
That was the Casket of Heav'ns richest store | T |
And here though grief my feeble hands up lock | S |
Yet on the softned Quarry would I score | T |
My plaining vers as lively as before | T |
For sure so well instructed are my tears | U |
They would fitly fall in order'd Characters | V |
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VIII | - |
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I thence hurried on viewles wing | C |
Take up a weeping on the Mountains wilde | W |
The gentle neighbourhood of grove and spring | C |
Would soon unboosom all their Echoes milde | W |
And I for grief is easily beguild | W |
Might think th'infection of my sorrows bound | W |
Had got a race of mourners on som pregnant cloud | W |
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Note This subject the Author finding to be above the yeers he had | W |
when he wrote it and nothing satisfi'd with what was begun | X |
left it unfinish'd | W |
John Milton
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