The Carpenter's Son Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCD EEFGGF HHIJJI KKLDDM NNOPPO QQRSSR TTUVVU WWKXXK GGYZA2Y B2B2C2D2D2C2 E2E2F2G2G2F2 VVH2I2I2H2 J2J2K2VVL2 M2M2IC2C2IThe summer dawn came over soon | A |
The earth was like hot iron at noon | A |
In Nazareth | B |
There fell no rain to ease the heat | C |
And dusk drew on with tired feet | C |
And stifled breath | D |
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The shop was low and hot and square | E |
And fresh cut wood made sharp the air | E |
While all day long | F |
The saw went tearing thru the oak | G |
That moaned as tho' the tree's heart broke | G |
Beneath its wrong | F |
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The narrow street was full of cries | H |
Of bickering and snarling lies | H |
In many keys | I |
The tongues of Egypt and of Rome | J |
And lands beyond the shifting foam | J |
Of windy seas | I |
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Sometimes a ruler riding fast | K |
Scattered the dark crowds as he passed | K |
And drove them close | L |
In doorways drawing broken breath | D |
Lest they be trampled to their death | D |
Where the dust rose | M |
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There in the gathering night and noise | N |
A group of Galilean boys | N |
Crowding to see | O |
Gray Joseph toiling with his son | P |
Saw Jesus when the task was done | P |
Turn wearily | O |
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He passed them by with hurried tread | Q |
Silently nor raised his head | Q |
He who looked up | R |
Drinking all beauty from his birth | S |
Out of the heaven and the earth | S |
As from a cup | R |
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And Mary who was growing old | T |
Knew that the pottage would be cold | T |
When he returned | U |
He hungered only for the night | V |
And westward bending sharp and bright | V |
The thin moon burned | U |
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He reached the open western gate | W |
Where whining halt and leper wait | W |
And came at last | K |
To the blue desert where the deep | X |
Great seas of twilight lay asleep | X |
Windless and vast | K |
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With shining eyes the stars awoke | G |
The dew lay heavy on his cloak | G |
The world was dim | Y |
And in the stillness he could hear | Z |
His secret thoughts draw very near | A2 |
And call to him | Y |
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Faint voices lifted shrill with pain | B2 |
And multitudinous as rain | B2 |
From all the lands | C2 |
And all the villages thereof | D2 |
Men crying for the gift of love | D2 |
With outstretched hands | C2 |
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Voices that called with ceaseless crying | E2 |
The broken and the blind the dying | E2 |
And those grown dumb | F2 |
Beneath oppression and he heard | G2 |
Upon their lips a single word | G2 |
Come | F2 |
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Their cries engulfed him like the night | V |
The moon put out her placid light | V |
And black and low | H2 |
Nearer the heavy thunder drew | I2 |
Hushing the voices yet he knew | I2 |
That he would go | H2 |
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A quick spun thread of lightning burns | J2 |
And for a flash the day returns | J2 |
He only hears | K2 |
Joseph an old man bent and white | V |
Toiling alone from morn till night | V |
Thru all the years | L2 |
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Swift clouds make all the heavens blind | M2 |
A storm is running on the wind | M2 |
He only sees | I |
How Mary will stretch out her hands | C2 |
Sobbing who never understands | C2 |
Voices like these | I |
Sara Teasdale
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