The First Bath Of Ablution Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CBCB DEDE FGFG HIHI JKLK MNMN OPOP QRQR| The wind is keen the frost is dread | A |
| Toward the icy water | B |
| By aunt and mother forth is led | A |
| The fisher's lovely daughter | B |
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| Dive in dive in my child with haste | C |
| There's naught whereon to ponder | B |
| The time dear heart we must not waste | C |
| The sun has set out yonder | B |
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| God's mercy child is great and sure | D |
| Fear not but He will show it | E |
| Leap in leap out and you are pure | D |
| 'Tis over ere you know it | E |
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| The frost and cold with cruel knife | F |
| The tender form assail | G |
| Ah would you be a Jewish wife | F |
| You must not weep and quail | G |
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| And in and out she leaps Once more | H |
| Poor girl it has not served you | I |
| No purer are you than before | H |
| A Gentile has observed you | I |
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| And into th' icy flood again | J |
| In terror wild she leaps | K |
| The white limbs shudder all in vain | L |
| The Christian still he peeps | K |
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| The frost and cold they burn and bite | M |
| The women rub their fingers | N |
| The lovely child grows white and white | M |
| As on the bank she lingers | N |
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| The Law my child we must fulfill | O |
| The scoundrel see depart | P |
| Yet once 'tis but a moment's chill | O |
| 'Tis but a trifling smart | P |
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| The white faced child the Law has kept | Q |
| The covenant unstained | R |
| For in the waters deep she leapt | Q |
| And there below remained | R |
Morris Rosenfeld
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