Hannah Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDE FFGGHH IIJKLL MNOO PPQRNNSSFFNN TTUUVVJJNNWWVVNNNNUU TT XYZZVV DEUUUUA2A2UUB2C2 D2E2UUUUNN NNF2F2UUFFNN JJG2G2UU H2VUUNNNNH2H2XYUU I2I2UUJJUU J2J2EENNK2K2NN NNTTL2L2M2M2 N2N2GGJJ YXFFF2F2 UUO2O2UU A2A2J2J2UUJJ NNP2P2Q2Q2R2R2 UUUUUUUUJUNow Crowds more off retiring trumpetts sound | A |
On Eccho's dying in their last rebound | A |
The notes of fancy seem no longer strong | B |
But sweetning closes fitt a private song | B |
So when the storms forsake ye seas command | C |
To break their forces in the winding land | C |
No more their blasts tumultuous rage proclaim | D |
But sweep in murmurs ore a murm'ring stream | E |
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Then Seek ye Subject its song be mine | F |
Whose numbers next in Sacred story shine | F |
Go brightly working thought prepard to fly | G |
Above ye page on hov'ring pinnions ly | G |
beat with stronger force to make thee rise | H |
Where beautious Hannah meets ye searching eyes | H |
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There frame a town fix a tent with cords | I |
The town be Shiloh calld the tent ye Lords | I |
Carvd pillars filleted with silver rear | J |
To close ye curtains in an outward square | K |
But those within it which ye porch uphold | L |
Be finely wrought overlaid with gold | L |
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Here Eli comes to take ye resting Seat | M |
Slow moving forward with a revrend gate | N |
Sacred in office venerably sage | O |
venerably great in silverd age | O |
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Here Hannah comes a melancholly wife | P |
Reproachd for barren in ye marriage life | P |
Like summer mornings she to sight appears | Q |
Bedewd shining in the midst of tears | R |
Her heart in bitterness of grief she bowd | N |
thus her wishes to the Lord she vowd | N |
If thou thine handmaid with compassion see | S |
If I my God am not forgott by thee | S |
If in mine offspring thou prolong my line | F |
The Child I wish for all his days be thine | F |
His life devoted in thy courts be led | N |
not a rasour come upon his head | N |
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So from recesses of her inmost soul | T |
Through moving lips her still devotion stole | T |
As silent waters glide through parted trees | U |
Whose branches tremble with a rising breeze | U |
The words were lost because her heart was low | V |
But free desire had taught ye mouth to go | V |
This Eli markd with a voice severe | J |
While yet she multiplyd her thoughts in prayr | J |
How long shall wine he crys distract thy breast | N |
Begon lay ye drunken fitt by rest | N |
Ah says ye mourner count not this for sin | W |
It is not wine but grief that workes within | W |
The spirit of thy wretched handmaid know | V |
Her prayr's complaint her condition woe | V |
Then spake ye Sacred Priest in peace depart | N |
with thy comfort God fullfill thine heart | N |
His blessing thus pronouncd with awfull sound | N |
The Vot'ry bending leaves ye solemn ground | N |
She seems confirmd the Lord has heard her crys | U |
Chearfull Hope the tears of trouble drys | U |
makes her alterd eyes irradiate roll | T |
With Joy that dawns in thought upon ye soul | T |
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Now lett ye Town Tent court remain | X |
leap the time till Hannah comes again | Y |
As painted prospects skip along ye green | Z |
from hills to mountains eminently seen | Z |
leave their intervalls that sink below | V |
In deep retirement unexpressd to show | V |
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Behold she comes but not as once she came | D |
To grieve to sigh teach her eyes to stream | E |
Content adorns her with a lively face | U |
An open look smiling kind of grace | U |
Her little Samuel in her arms she bears | U |
The wish of long desire Child of prayrs | U |
as ye sacrifice she brought begun | A2 |
To rev'rend Eli she presents her son | A2 |
Here crys ye Mother here my Lord may see | U |
The woman come who prayd in grief by thee | U |
The Child I su'd for God with bounty gave | B2 |
what he granted let him now receive | C2 |
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But still ye Vot'ry feeles her temper move | D2 |
With all ye tender violence of Love | E2 |
That still enjoys ye gift inly burns | U |
To search for larger or for more returns | U |
Then filld with blessings which allure to praise | U |
raisd by Joy to soul enchanting lays | U |
Thus thankes ye Lord beneficently kind | N |
In sweet effusions of ye gratefull mind | N |
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My lifting heart with more than common heat | N |
Sends up its thankes to God on ev'ry beat | N |
My glory raisd above ye reach of scorn | F2 |
In God exalts its highly planted horn | F2 |
My mouth enlargd mine enemy defys | U |
finds in Gods salvation full replys | U |
O Bright in holy beautys Powr divine | F |
Theres none whose glory can compare wth thine | F |
None share thine honours nay theres none beside | N |
No rock on which thy creatures can confide | N |
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Ye proud in spirit who your gifts adore | J |
Unlearn the fault speak with pride no more | J |
No more in words your arrogance be shown | G2 |
Nor call ye workes of Providence your own | G2 |
Since he that rules us infinitely knows | U |
as he will his acts of Powr dispose | U |
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The strong whose sinewy forces archd ye bow | H2 |
Have seen it shatterd by ye conqu'ring foe | V |
The weak have felt their nerves more firmly brace | U |
new sprung vigour in the limbs encrease | U |
The full whom varyd tasts of plenty fed | N |
Have lett their labour out to gain their bread | N |
The poor that languishd in a starving state | N |
Content full have ceased to beg their meat | N |
The barren womb no longer barren now | H2 |
O be my thankes accepted with my vow | H2 |
In pleasure wonders at a mothers pain | X |
sees her offspring conceives again | Y |
While she that gloryd in her numerous heirs | U |
Now broke by feebleness no longer bears | U |
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Such turns their rising from ye Lord derive | I2 |
The Lord that kills the Lord yt makes alive | I2 |
He brings by sickness down to gaping graves | U |
by restoring health from sickness saves | U |
He makes ye poor by keeping back his store | J |
makes ye rich by blessing men with more | J |
He sinking hearts with bitter grief annoys | U |
Or lifts them bounding with enlivend Joys | U |
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He takes ye beggar from his humble clay | J2 |
From off ye dunghill where despisd he lay | J2 |
To mix with Princes in a rank supream | E |
Fill thrones of Honour inherit fame | E |
For all the pillars of exalted state | N |
So nobly firm so beautifully great | N |
Whose various orders bear ye rounded ball | K2 |
Which woud without them to confusion fall | K2 |
All are ye Lords at his disposure stand | N |
prop ye governd world at his command | N |
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His mercy still more wonderfully sweet | N |
Shall guard ye righteous uphold their feet | N |
While through ye darkness of ye wicked soul | T |
Amazement Dread Desperation roll | T |
While envy stops their tongues hopeless grief | L2 |
that sees their fears but not their fears relief | L2 |
they their strength as unavailing view | M2 |
Since none shall trust in that safely too | M2 |
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The foes of Israel for his Israels sake | N2 |
God will to pieces in his anger break | N2 |
His bolts of thunder from an opend sky | G |
Shall on their heads with force unerring fly | G |
His voice shall call all ye world shall hear | J |
all for sentence at his Seat appear | J |
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But mount to gentler praises mount again | Y |
My thought prophetick of Messiahs reign | X |
Perceive the glorys which around him shine | F |
thus thine hymn be crownd with grace divine | F |
'Strength to ye King for mans salvation born | F2 |
' honours rising like ye lifted horn | F2 |
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Tis here ye numbers find a bright repose | U |
The vows accepted the Vot'ry goes | U |
But thou my soul upon her accents hung | O2 |
sweetly pleasd with what she sweetly sung | O2 |
Prolong the pleasure with thine inward eyes | U |
Turn back thy thought see ye subject rise | U |
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In her peculiar case ye song begun | A2 |
for awhile through private blessings run | A2 |
As through their banks the curling waters play | J2 |
soft in murmurs kiss ye flowry way | J2 |
With force encreasing then she leaps ye bounds | U |
largely flows on more extended grounds | U |
Spreads wide wider till vast seas appear | J |
boundless views of Providence are here | J |
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How Swift these views along her Anthem glide | N |
As waves on waves pushd forward in ye tide | N |
How swift thy wonders ore my fancy sweep | P2 |
O Providence thou great unfathomd deep | P2 |
Where Resignation gently dips ye wing | Q2 |
learns to love thank admire sing | Q2 |
But bold presumptious Reasnings diving down | R2 |
To reach ye bottom in their diving drown | R2 |
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Neglecting man forgetfull of thy ways | U |
Nor owns thy care nor thinkes of giving praise | U |
But from himself his happiness derives | U |
thankes his wisdome when by thine he thrives | U |
His limbs at ease in soft repose he spreads | U |
Bewitchd with vain delights on flowry beds | U |
while his sense ye fragrant breezes kiss | U |
He meditates a waking dream of bliss | U |
He thinks of Kingdomes their crowns are near | J |
He thinkes of glorys | U |
Thomas Parnell
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