Annunciation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DCDC CCCC CCCC CBCB ECEC| 'The lord appeared in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush and behold the bush burned with fire and the bush was not consumed ' EXODOUS iii | A |
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| When to your virgin heart unstirred ungiven | B |
| Upon the quiet mountainside untrod | C |
| The sudden naked fire came down from heaven | B |
| Burning you with the very breath of God | C |
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| Was the sun lost Were all the sweet stars dim | D |
| While God raised round your head those walls of light | C |
| Were you locked dumbly terribly with Him | D |
| Within that burning temple day and night | C |
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| What was it to have God there like a bird | C |
| God like a great gold flower upon your breast | C |
| While He spake things that only one man heard | C |
| Face down before that glory manifest | C |
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| When that strange flame went up the mountain side | C |
| Were your forsaken lips so burned with gold | C |
| That the creatures of the wild stood off and cried | C |
| And in your breast no blossom dared unfold | C |
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| Did you call back the startled birds to build | C |
| And put forth all your simple buds again | B |
| Forgetting how your branches once were filled | C |
| In sweet embrace of passing sun and rain | B |
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| Or were all other birds forbidden sing | E |
| After those great gold plumes had made their nest | C |
| Was in its strange and awful blossoming | E |
| That great gold flower the last upon your breast | C |
Muriel Stuart
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