Mary And Gabriel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFGFCHHIIJJ KKCCLLM MKKNNOOPCQQRRCCLLSSN NJJTTUVWVCCIX I| Young Mary loitering once her garden way | A |
| Felt a warm splendour grow in the April day | A |
| As wine that blushes water through And soon | B |
| Out of the gold air of the afternoon | B |
| One knelt before her hair he had or fire | C |
| Bound back above his ears with golden wire | C |
| Baring the eager marble of his face | D |
| Not man's nor woman's was the immortal grace | D |
| Rounding the limbs beneath that robe of white | E |
| And lighting the proud eyes with changeless light | E |
| Incurious Calm as his wings and fair | F |
| That presence filled the garden | G |
| She stood there | F |
| Saying What would you Sir | C |
| He told his word | H |
| Blessed art thou of women Half she heard | H |
| Hands folded and face bowed half long had known | I |
| The message of that clear and holy tone | I |
| That fluttered hot sweet sobs about her heart | J |
| Such serene tidings moved such human smart | J |
| Her breath came quick as little flakes of snow | K |
| Her hands crept up her breast She did but know | K |
| It was not hers She felt a trembling stir | C |
| Within her body a will too strong for her | C |
| That held and filled and mastered all With eyes | L |
| Closed and a thousand soft short broken sighs | L |
| She gave submission fearful meek and glad | M |
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| She wished to speak Under her breasts she had | M |
| Such multitudinous burnings to and fro | K |
| And throbs not understood she did not know | K |
| If they were hurt or joy for her but only | N |
| That she was grown strange to herself half lonely | N |
| All wonderful filled full of pains to come | O |
| And thoughts she dare not think swift thoughts and dumb | O |
| Human and quaint her own yet very far | P |
| Divine dear terrible familiar | C |
| Her heart was faint for telling to relate | Q |
| Her limbs' sweet treachery her strange high estate | Q |
| Over and over whispering half revealing | R |
| Weeping and so find kindness to her healing | R |
| 'Twixt tears and laughter panic hurrying her | C |
| She raised her eyes to that fair messenger | C |
| He knelt unmoved immortal with his eyes | L |
| Gazing beyond her calm to the calm skies | L |
| Radiant untroubled in his wisdom kind | S |
| His sheaf of lilies stirred not in the wind | S |
| How should she pitiful with mortality | N |
| Try the wide peace of that felicity | N |
| With ripples of her perplexed shaken heart | J |
| And hints of human ecstasy human smart | J |
| And whispers of the lonely weight she bore | T |
| And how her womb within was hers no more | T |
| And at length hers | U |
| Being tired she bowed her head | V |
| And said So be it | W |
| The great wings were spread | V |
| Showering glory on the fields and fire | C |
| The whole air singing bore him up and higher | C |
| Unswerving unreluctant Soon he shone | I |
| A gold speck in the gold skies then was gone | X |
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| The air was colder and grey She stood alone | I |
Rupert Brooke
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