Gertrude's Prayer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBB CDEDBB FGFHBB| That which is marred at birth Time shall not mend | A |
| Nor water out of bitter well make clean | B |
| All evil thing returneth at the end | A |
| Or elseway walketh in our blood unseen | B |
| Whereby the more is sorrow in certaine | B |
| Dayspring mishandled cometh not againe | B |
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| To bruized be that slender sterting spray | C |
| Out of the oake's rind that should betide | D |
| A branch of girt and goodliness straightway | E |
| Her spring is turned on herself and wried | D |
| And knotted like some gall or veiney wen | B |
| Dayspring mishandled cometh not againe | B |
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| Noontide repayeth never morning bliss | F |
| Sith noon to morn is incomparable | G |
| And so it be our dawning goth amiss | F |
| None other after hour serveth well | H |
| Ah Jesu Moder pitie my oe paine | B |
| Dayspring mishandled cometh not againe | B |
Rudyard Kipling
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