Abraham-s Sacrifice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDD EFGFEE HIEIJJ KLMLNN OPQPRS TUVUWH IXSXFF YHZHFF VA2B2A2C2C2 ZD2ID2E2E2 ZF2VF2G2Z| The noontide sun streamed brightly down | A |
| Moriah s mountain crest | B |
| The golden blaze of his vivid rays | C |
| Tinged sacred Jordan s breast | B |
| While towering palms and flowerets sweet | D |
| Drooped low neath Syria s burning heat | D |
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| In the sunny glare of the sultry air | E |
| Toiled up the mountain side | F |
| The Patriarch sage in stately age | G |
| And a youth in health s gay pride | F |
| Bearing in eyes and in features fair | E |
| The stamp of his mother s beauty rare | E |
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| She had not known when one rosy dawn | H |
| Ere they started on their way | I |
| She had smoothed with care his clustering hair | E |
| And knelt with him to pray | I |
| That his father s hand and will alike | J |
| Were nerved at his young heart to strike | J |
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| The Heavenly Power that with such dower | K |
| Of love fills a mother s heart | L |
| Ardent and pure that can all endure | M |
| Of her life itself a part | L |
| Knew too well that love beyond all price | N |
| To ask of her such a sacrifice | N |
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| Though the noble boy with laughing joy | O |
| Had borne up the mountain road | P |
| The altar wood which in mournful mood | Q |
| His sire had helped to load | P |
| Type of Him who dragged up Calvary | R |
| The cross on which he was doomed to die | S |
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| The hot breath of noon began full soon | T |
| On his youthful frame to tell | U |
| On the ivory brow flushed wearied now | V |
| It laid its burning spell | U |
| And listless languid he journeyed on | W |
| The smiles from his lips and bright eyes gone | H |
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| Once did he say on their toilsome way | I |
| Father no victim is near | X |
| But with heavy sigh and tear dimmed eye | S |
| In accents sad though clear | X |
| Abraham answered The Lord our guide | F |
| A fitting sacrifice will provide | F |
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| The altar made and the fuel laid | Y |
| Lo the victim stretched thereon | H |
| Is Abraham s son his only one | Z |
| Who at morning s blushing dawn | H |
| Had started with smiles that care defied | F |
| To travel on at his father s side | F |
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| With grief struck brow the Patriarch now | V |
| Bares the sharp and glittering knife | A2 |
| On that mournful pyre oh hapless sire | B2 |
| Must he take his darling s life | A2 |
| Will fails not though his eyes are dim | C2 |
| God gave his boy he belongs to him | C2 |
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| With anguish riven he casts towards Heaven | Z |
| One look imploring wild | D2 |
| That doth mutely pray for strength to slay | I |
| His own his only child | D2 |
| When forth on the air swells a glad command | E2 |
| And an angel stays his trembling hand | E2 |
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| The offering done the sire and son | Z |
| Come down Moriah s steep | F2 |
| Joy gleaming now on Abraham s brow | V |
| In his heart thanksgiving deep | F2 |
| While with love from His lofty and glorious Throne | G2 |
| Heaven s King hath smiled on sire and son | Z |
Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
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