Ministering Women Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGFH IJIJ KHKH LMLM NONO HPHP IIII QRQR STST UVUW XYXY ZHZH A2BA2B CUCU B2CB2C C2HC2H JIJI| And Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod's steward and Susanna and many others who ministered unto him of their substance Luke Mark John Matthew Luke John | A |
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| Those women who their Christ and Lord | B |
| Aided by gentle ministry | C |
| Have gained their race a rich reward | B |
| Treasured in sacred history | C |
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| Joanna is unknown at court | D |
| Although entitled to be there | E |
| The record of her life's report | D |
| In fadeless glory has its share | E |
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| Susanna's name is intertwined | F |
| A gem as sparkling and as clear | G |
| As those with which it is enshrined | F |
| And this is all we know of her | H |
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| And those whose names have not been given | I |
| Are now in realms of light and love | J |
| Praising him mid the choirs of heaven | I |
| Crowned with his joy and peace and love | J |
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| Mary of Magdala was brought | K |
| From mysteries strange and dark and drear | H |
| To heights with joy and gladness fraught | K |
| She radiates a luster clear | H |
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| Those chimes from Bethany will ring | L |
| With power that will not cannot die | M |
| Martha's and Mary's names will sing | L |
| Long as the flitting centuries fly | M |
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| That spikenard which 'twas wholly meet | N |
| Mary should pour upon his head | O |
| Has filled with fragrance rare and sweet | N |
| Succeeding ages as they've fled | O |
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| And when a critic standing near | H |
| Censured her act misunderstood | P |
| Christ spoke so that the world might hear | H |
| He said She hath done what she could | P |
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| This her memorial while the sun | I |
| Traverses the blue dome of heaven | I |
| Fulfilling while time's cycles run | I |
| Christ's prophecy which then was given | I |
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| Unto the end these faithful few | Q |
| Regardless of all pain and loss | R |
| Did what their hearts and hands could do | Q |
| Though bowed with wonder at the cross | R |
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| Such love they could not understand | S |
| Such love unto his latest breath | T |
| That love had our redemption planned | S |
| Both in his life and in his death | T |
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| They haunt the tomb in which he lay | U |
| Grief stricken desolate and lone | V |
| But Magdalene at break of day | U |
| Found that her precious charge was gone | W |
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| Two angels said Why weepest thou | X |
| The angels knew ere they inquired | Y |
| They knew her heart could triumph now | X |
| These sinless ones by love inspired | Y |
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| She weeping told her loss and woe | Z |
| Then answered thus a questioner near | H |
| Sir if thou dost his refuge know | Z |
| Tell me I seek him vainly here | H |
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| Mary She listened to her name | A2 |
| Uttered by Christ her risen Lord | B |
| Master her trembling lips exclaim | A2 |
| Then wondered worshipped and adored | B |
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| Her joy is ours Oh may we see | C |
| That joy more plainly every day | U |
| Christ lives and loves eternally | C |
| Swift feet such tidings should convey | U |
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| Eternal life and heavenly rest | B2 |
| He purchased by death's agony | C |
| That whosoever will be blest | B2 |
| With glorious immortality | C |
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| May we our sisters of the past | C2 |
| In life and character revere | H |
| Like them be faithful to the last | C2 |
| Like them be loving and sincere | H |
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| First must the gospel plan of love | J |
| To every land and tribe be given | I |
| Ere He'll return who from above | J |
| Is God's best gift to earth from heaven | I |
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