The Great Sorrow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB BDBD EFEF GHGH| Voice of a great wind of wild ocean surges | A |
| Storming the gates of Heaven | B |
| The people of God singing under the scourges | C |
| Wherewith they are healed and shriven | B |
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| This is no sound no wail of lamentation | B |
| Such as of old was heard | D |
| When Rachael cried to Heaven her desolation | B |
| Until all Heaven was stirred | D |
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| The people sing crushed in the wine press ruddy | E |
| Broken but not dismayed | F |
| The triumph song of the soul over the body | E |
| Heaven lifted angel stayed | F |
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| The white sorrow homes to the heavenly portal | G |
| This grief this grief has wings | H |
| Blood on her breast but through the groves immortal | G |
| Her song of triumph rings | H |
Katharine Tynan
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