The Deserted Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DEFFGG BBHHBB IJKKLM NOPQRC STURVW AAEEXXThou Who wert kindest of the kind | A |
Since out of sight is out of mind | A |
There's none to do Thee kindnesses | B |
In Thy last anguish and distress | B |
Thou art left all alone alone | C |
Where are Thy faithful lovers flown | C |
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Where is the multitude that fed | D |
With loaves and fishes comfort d | E |
The blind Thou mad'st to see the lame | F |
That walked the one leper who came | F |
Of nine made clean The dumb that spoke | G |
Where are they all Thy loving folk | G |
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How is it they have naught to say | B |
Where's Lazarus risen from the clay | B |
Where is the widow of Nain where | H |
Jairus's daughter small and fair | H |
Judas has sold Thee to Thy foes | B |
And Peter weeps while the cock crows | B |
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Simon will help Thee on Thy road | I |
Unwillingly ah Lamb of God | J |
Thou bearest the world's weight up that hill | K |
And none to help Thee with good will | K |
Stumbling and falling while Thy hurt | L |
Makes for the rabble noble sport | M |
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But yet there's balm in Gilead | N |
For here's His Mother sweet and sad | O |
Here's Magdalen weeping and with them | P |
The women of Jerusalem | Q |
They have run all the way since one | R |
Brought them the news He's not alone | C |
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Veronica is nothing loth | S |
To wipe His poor face with her cloth | T |
His Mother's by Him and St John | U |
With many a starry legion | R |
Magdalen's hair is round His feet | V |
Her tears wash off the blood and sweat | W |
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Thou Who wert kindest of the kind | A |
Though out of sight be out of mind | A |
Thou art not forgot by land and sea | E |
The broken hearts come home to Thee | E |
And bear Thine anguish and Thy grief | X |
Till the Third Day shall bring relief | X |
Katharine Tynan
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