Pater Filio Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEFEFF CACACC BABABB| Sense with keenest edge unus egrave d | A |
| Yet unsteel'd by scathing fire | B |
| Lovely feet as yet unbruis egrave d | A |
| On the ways of dark desire | B |
| Sweetest hope that lookest smiling | C |
| O'er the wilderness defiling | C |
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| Why such beauty to be blighted | D |
| By the swarm of foul destruction | E |
| Why such innocence delighted | F |
| When sin stalks to thy seduction | E |
| All the litanies e'er chaunted | F |
| Shall not keep thy faith undaunted | F |
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| I have pray'd the sainted Morning | C |
| To unclasp her hands to hold thee | A |
| From resignful Eve's adorning | C |
| Stol'n a robe of peace to enfold thee | A |
| With all charms of man's contriving | C |
| Arm'd thee for thy lonely striving | C |
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| Me too once unthinking Nature | B |
| Whence Love's timeless mockery took me | A |
| Fashion'd so divine a creature | B |
| Yea and like a beast forsook me | A |
| I forgave but tell the measure | B |
| Of her crime in thee my treasure | B |
Robert Bridges
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