The Garden Of Gethsemane Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD AAEE FFGG HHII JJKK LLMM| The place is fair and tranquil Judaea s cloudless sky | A |
| Smiles down on distant mountain on glade and valley nigh | A |
| And odorous winds bring fragrance from palm tops darkly green | B |
| And olive trees whose branches wave softly o er the scene | B |
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| Whence comes the awe struck feeling that fills the gazer s breast | C |
| The breath quick drawn and panting the awe the solemn rest | C |
| What strange and holy magic seems earth and air to fill | D |
| That worldly thoughts and feelings are now all hushed and still | D |
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| Ah here one solemn evening in ages long gone by | A |
| A mourner knelt and sorrowed beneath the starlit sky | A |
| And He whose drops of anguish bedewed the sacred sod | E |
| Was Lord of earth and heaven our Saviour and our God | E |
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| Hark to the mournful whispers from olive leaf and bough | F |
| They fanned His aching temples His damp and grief struck brow | F |
| Hark how the soft winds murmur with low and grieving tone | G |
| They heard His words of anguish they heard each sigh and moan | G |
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| Alone in deepest agony while tired apostles slept | H |
| No one to share His vigil weep with Him as He wept | H |
| Before Him clearly rising the Cross the dying pain | I |
| And sins of hosts unnumbered whose souls He dies to gain | I |
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| O Garden of Gethsemane the God like lesson then | J |
| Left as a precious token to suff ring sorrowing men | J |
| Has breaking hearts oft strengthened that else so sharply tried | K |
| Had sunk beneath sin s burden and in despair had died | K |
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| O Garden of Gethsemane when pressed and sore afraid | L |
| May I in spirit enter beneath thine olive shade | L |
| And great though be my anguish still like that God like One | M |
| Submissive say Oh Father Thy will not mine be done | M |
Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
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