The Weeper Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABB CACABB AAAADD EFGHBB IJIJKL BCBCAA AMALNN AOAOPP QCRCAA AAAASS TUVUAA WXWXNN| Hail sister springs | A |
| Parents of silver footed rills | A |
| Ever bubbling things | A |
| Thawing crystal snowy hills | A |
| Still spending never spent I mean | B |
| Thy fair eyes sweet Magdalene | B |
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| Heavens thy fair eyes be | C |
| Heavens of ever falling stars | A |
| 'Tis seed time still with thee | C |
| And stars thou sow'st whose harvest dares | A |
| Promise the earth to countershine | B |
| Whatever makes Heaven's forehead fine | B |
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| Every morn from hence | A |
| A brisk cherub something sips | A |
| Whose soft influence | A |
| Adds sweetness to his sweetest lips | A |
| Then to his music and his song | D |
| Tastes of this breakfast all day long | D |
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| When some new bright guest | E |
| Takes up among the stars a room | F |
| And Heaven will make a feast | G |
| Angels with their bottles come | H |
| And draw from these full eyes of thine | B |
| Their Master's water their own wine | B |
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| The dew no more will weep | I |
| The primrose's pale cheek to deck | J |
| The dew no more will sleep | I |
| Nuzzled in the lily's neck | J |
| Much rather would it tremble here | K |
| And leave them both to be thy tear | L |
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| When sorrow would be seen | B |
| In her brightest majesty | C |
| For she is a Queen | B |
| Then is she drest by none but thee | C |
| Then and only then she wears | A |
| Her richest pearls I mean thy tears | A |
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| Not in the evening's eyes | A |
| When they red with weeping are | M |
| For the Sun that dies | A |
| Sits Sorrow with a face so fair | L |
| Nowhere but here did ever meet | N |
| Sweetness so sad sadness so sweet | N |
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| Does the night arise | A |
| Still thy tears do fall and fall | O |
| Does night lose her eyes | A |
| Still the fountain weeps for all | O |
| Let day and night do what they will | P |
| Thou hast thy task thou weepest still | P |
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| Not So long she lived | Q |
| Will thy tomb report of thee | C |
| But So long she grieved | R |
| Thus must we date thy memory | C |
| Others by days by months by years | A |
| Measure their ages thou by tears | A |
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| Say ye bright brothers | A |
| The fugitive sons of those fair eyes | A |
| Your fruitful mothers | A |
| What make you here What hopes can 'tice | A |
| You to be born What cause can borrow | S |
| You from those nests of noble sorrow | S |
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| Whither away so fast | T |
| For sure the sordid earth | U |
| Your sweetness cannot taste | V |
| Nor does the dust deserve your birth | U |
| Sweet whither haste you then O say | A |
| Why you trip so fast away | A |
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| We go not to seek | W |
| The darlings of Aurora's bed | X |
| The rose's modest cheek | W |
| Nor the violet's humble head | X |
| No such thing we go to meet | N |
| A worthier object our Lord's feet | N |
Richard Crashaw
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