A Priest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFGFGF HIJIKKILMNNM OPOOPQKQK RIRRSSTIIUUTT| NATURE and he went ever hand in hand | A |
| Across the hills and down the lonely lane | B |
| They captured starry shells upon the strand | A |
| And lay enchanted by the musing main | B |
| So She who loved him for his love of her | C |
| Made him the heir to traceries and signs | D |
| On tiny children nigh too small to stir | C |
| In great green plains of hazel leaf or vines | D |
| She taught the trouble of the nightingale | E |
| Revealed the velvet secret of the rose | F |
| She breathed divinity into his heart | G |
| That rare divinity of watching those | F |
| Slow growths that make a nettle learn to dart | G |
| The puny poison of its little throes | F |
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| Her miracles motion butterflies | H |
| Rubies and sapphires skimming lily crests | I |
| Carved on a yellow petal with their eye | J |
| Tranced by the beauty of their powdered breasts | I |
| Seen in the mirror of a drop of dew | K |
| He loved as friends and as a friend he knew | K |
| The dust of gold and scarlet underwings | I |
| More precious was to him than nuggets torn | L |
| From all invaded treasure crypts of time | M |
| And every floating painted silver beam | N |
| Drew him to roses where it stayed to dream | N |
| Or down sweet avenues of scented lime | M |
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| And Nature trained him tenderly to know | O |
| The rain of melodies in coverts heard | P |
| Let him but catch the cadences that flow | O |
| From hollybush or lilac elm or sloe | O |
| And he would mate the music with the bird | P |
| The faintest song a redstart ever sang | Q |
| Was redstart s piping and the whitethroat knew | K |
| No cunning trill no mazy shake that rang | Q |
| Doubtful on ears unaided by the view | K |
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| But in his glory as a young pure priest | R |
| In that great temple only roofed by stars | I |
| An angel hastened from the sacred East | R |
| To reap the wisest and to leave the least | R |
| And as he moaned upon the couch of death | S |
| Breathing away his little share of breath | S |
| All suddenly he sprang upright in bed | T |
| Life like a ray poured fresh into his face | I |
| Flooding the hollow cheeks with passing grace | I |
| He listened long then pointed up above | U |
| Laughed a low laugh of boundless joy and love | U |
| That was a plover called he softly said | T |
| And on his wife s breast fell serenely dead | T |
Norman Rowland Gale
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