An Easter Hymn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADD EFFEGG HIIHJJ HBBHKK LMMLNN OPPOAA QRRQSS TFFTBC UIIUAA| Spake the Lord Christ I will arise | A |
| It seemed a saying void and vain | B |
| How shall a dead man rise again | C |
| Vain as our tears vain as our cries | A |
| Not one of all the little band | D |
| That loved Him this might understand | D |
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| I will arise Lord Jesus said | E |
| Hearken amid the morning dew | F |
| Mary a voice that calleth you | F |
| Then Mary turned her golden head | E |
| And lo all shining at her side | G |
| Her Master they had crucified | G |
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| At dawn to his dim sepulchre | H |
| Mary remembering that far day | I |
| When at his feet the spikenard lay | I |
| Came bringing balm and spice and myrrh | H |
| To her the grave had made reply | J |
| He is not here He cannot die | J |
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| Praetor and priest in vain conspire | H |
| Jerusalem and Rome in vain | B |
| Torture the god with mortal pain | B |
| To quench that seed of living fire | H |
| But light that had in heaven its birth | K |
| Can never be put out oh earth | K |
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| I will arise across the years | L |
| Even as to Mary that grey morn | M |
| To us that gentle voice is borne | M |
| I will arise He that hath ears | L |
| O hearken well this mystic word | N |
| Let not the Master speak unheard | N |
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| No soul descended deep in hell | O |
| The child of sorrow sin and death | P |
| The immortal spirit suffereth | P |
| To see corruption though it fell | O |
| From loftiest station in the skies | A |
| It still to heaven again must rise | A |
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| No dream of faith no seed of love | Q |
| No lonely action nobly done | R |
| But is as stable as the sun | R |
| And fed and watered from above | Q |
| From nether base to starry cope | S |
| Nature's two laws are Faith and Hope | S |
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| Safe in the care of heavenly powers | T |
| The good we dreamed but might not do | F |
| Lost beauty magically new | F |
| Shall spring as surely as the flowers | T |
| When 'mid the sobbing of the rain | B |
| The heart of April beats again | C |
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| Celestial spirit that doth roll | U |
| The heart's sepulchral stone away | I |
| Be this our resurrection day | I |
| The singing Easter of the soul | U |
| O Gentle Master of the Wise | A |
| Teach us to say I will arise | A |
Richard Le Gallienne
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