Mater Dolorosa Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGFGHEHE EHEHIEIE FEFEHEHE JHJHDIDI| The nuns sing ora pro nobis | A |
| The lancets glitter above | B |
| And the beautiful Virgin whose robe is | C |
| Woven of infinite love | B |
| Infinite love and sorrow | D |
| Prays for them there on high | E |
| Who has most need of her prayers to morrow | D |
| Shall tell them they or I | E |
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| Up in the hills together | F |
| We loved where the world seemed true | G |
| Our world of the whin and heather | F |
| Our skies of a nearer blue | G |
| A blue from which one borrows | H |
| A faith that helps one die | E |
| O Mother sweet Mother of Sorrows | H |
| None needs such more than I | E |
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| We lived we loved unwedded | E |
| Love's sin and its shame that slays | H |
| No ill of the year we dreaded | E |
| No day of its coming days | H |
| Its coming days their many | I |
| Trials by morn and night | E |
| And I know no land not any | I |
| Where love's lilies grow so white | E |
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| Was he false to me my Mother | F |
| Or I to him my God | E |
| Who gave thee right O brother | F |
| To take God's right and rod | E |
| God's rod of avenging morrows | H |
| And the life here in my side | E |
| O Mother God's Mother of Sorrows | H |
| For both I would have died | E |
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| By the wall of the Chantry kneeling | J |
| I pray and the organ rings | H |
| Gloria gloria pealing | J |
| Sancta Maria sings | H |
| They will find us dead to morrow | D |
| By the wall of their nunnery | I |
| O Mother sweet Mother of Sorrow | D |
| His unborn babe and me | I |
Madison Julius Cawein
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