May Miracle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BCBCDEDE FGFGHAHA IDIDJKJK LMLMANANOO| On this festive first of May | A |
| Wending wistfully my way | A |
| Three sad sights I saw today | A |
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| The first was such a lovely lad | B |
| He lit with grace the sordid street | C |
| Yet in a monk's robe he was clad | B |
| With tonsured head and sandalled feet | C |
| Though handsome as a movie star | D |
| His eyes had holiness in them | E |
| As if he saw afaint afar | D |
| A stable stall in Bethlehem | E |
| - | |
| The second was a crippled maid | F |
| Who gazed and gazed with eager glance | G |
| Into a window that displayed | F |
| The picture of a ballet dance | G |
| And as she leaned on crutches twain | H |
| Before that poster garland gay | A |
| She looked so longingly and vain | H |
| I thought she'd never go away | A |
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| The last one was a sightless man | I |
| Who to the tune of a guitar | D |
| Caught coppers in a dingy can | I |
| Patient and sad as blind men are | D |
| So old and grey and grimy too | J |
| His fingers fumbled on the strings | K |
| As emptily he looked at you | J |
| And sang as only sorrow sings | K |
| - | |
| Then I went home and had a dream | L |
| That seemed fantastical to me | M |
| I saw the youth with eye agleam | L |
| Put off his robe and dance with glee | M |
| The maid her crutches threw away | A |
| Her withered limbs seemed shapely fine | N |
| And there the two with radiance gay | A |
| Divinely danced in soft entwine | N |
| While the blind man his sight restored | O |
| Guitared the Glory of the Lord | O |
Robert William Service
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