To The Virgin Mary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH IEEE IEJE KEIE LIMI IENE EEEE IEOE EDLD IEPE PEQE REEE SLTL UVWV| Mother of Him we call the Christ | A |
| No halo round thy brows we paint | B |
| Incense and prayer we offer not | C |
| Nor mind to title thee as saint | B |
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| And yet no woman's name of all | D |
| With honour from the ages sent | E |
| Mary is aureoled like thine | F |
| With love and grief and glory blent | E |
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| Oh wisely was it that He chose | G |
| Who the unwritten future reads | H |
| To teach the after world through thee | I |
| What cherishers Messiah needs | H |
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| Thou heard'st the angel's prophecy | I |
| The tidings which the shepherds brought | E |
| Anna and Simeon praising God | E |
| And saw'st that star the Wise Men sought | E |
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| Ah who of us could bear like thee | I |
| With meekness God's triumphal light | E |
| Then still believing with His Charge | J |
| At midnight take an exile's flight | E |
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| Throughout the Son's long helplessness | K |
| His good was to thine own preferred | E |
| May we so serve and still like Thee | I |
| Stand back to let His voice be heard | E |
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| Dispenser once of earthly things | L |
| Thy Best Beloved thou didst see | I |
| God's hands for others blessing full | M |
| Could we be poor and glad like thee | I |
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| Soul pierced with sword like agony | I |
| Not felon's taunt nor soldier's jest | E |
| Beside the God forsaken Cross | N |
| Could drive thee from it like the rest | E |
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| Christ's banner thou alone didst hold | E |
| In face of all His foes displayed | E |
| Valiant through all defeat and but | E |
| Heart stricken that He was betrayed | E |
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| Ah Mary Could we stand like thee | I |
| Steadfast and watch the vowed depart | E |
| And grieve for their defection less | O |
| Than for the Saviour's wounded heart | E |
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| How must the God who favour set | E |
| On David once and kingly Saul | D |
| And yet foresaw their wanderings | L |
| And loved them through and after all | D |
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| How must He seal the prophecy | I |
| Declaring thee forever blest | E |
| Whose whole life showed thy worthiness | P |
| Of that pure Child thine arms had pressed | E |
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| O single hearted one to kiss | P |
| The lifeless and dishonored head | E |
| Fondly as when its baby brow | Q |
| By angel wings was canopied | E |
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| O self forgetful to rejoice | R |
| For that Heaven's entrance had been found | E |
| By the Beloved thou content | E |
| Thenceforth alone to close life's round | E |
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| In the bright future sure though far | S |
| Again as once the wide air rings | L |
| With praise to Christ Thy vigil ends | T |
| Meek daughter of a hundred kings | L |
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| Virgin may we partake thy joy | U |
| When Heaven and loyal earth shall lay | V |
| At the pierced feet of David's son | W |
| A crown He will not put away | V |
Mary Hannay Foott
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