Our Lady Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CDCDD EFEFF GHGHH IJIJJ| MOTHER of God no lady thou | A |
| Common woman of common earth | B |
| Our Lady ladies call thee now | A |
| But Christ was never of gentle birth | B |
| A common man of the common earth | B |
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| For God s ways are not as our ways | C |
| The noblest lady in the land | D |
| Would have given up half her days | C |
| Would have cut off her right hand | D |
| To bear the child that was God of the land | D |
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| Never a lady did He choose | E |
| Only a maid of low degree | F |
| So humble she might not refuse | E |
| The carpenter of Galilee | F |
| A daughter of the people she | F |
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| Out she sang the song of her heart | G |
| Never a lady so had sung | H |
| She knew no letters had no art | G |
| To all mankind in woman s tongue | H |
| Hath Israelitish Mary sung | H |
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| And still for men to come she sings | I |
| Nor shall her singing pass away | J |
| He hath fill d the hungry with good things | I |
| O listen lords and ladies gay | J |
| And the rich He hath sent empty away | J |
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
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