Saints Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDB EFGFHF GIJIGI KGGGLG IMNMOM| The Saints of Thy great Church Christ | A |
| How vast their numbers be | B |
| On holy page and ancient scroll | C |
| Their blessed names we see | B |
| And from the painted window panes | D |
| They smile eternally | B |
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| Rope girdled monk and pallid maid | E |
| And men who for Thy cross | F |
| Fought with the Saracen of old | G |
| Counting their lives no loss | F |
| Martyrs who rose through golden flames | H |
| Free of the body's dross | F |
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| Yet there be Saints uncanonised | G |
| Unrecognised unknown | I |
| Here on the common roads of earth | J |
| Oft times they walk alone | I |
| Saints whom no soul hath ever praised | G |
| Saints whom no Church doth own | I |
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| Men who against their souls' grim foes | K |
| Wage an unyielding fight | G |
| Men of new creeds and men of old | G |
| Men of dark hue and white | G |
| Each pressing hard towards some far gleam | L |
| Of Thy celestial light | G |
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| Dwellers in places waste and lone | I |
| Toilers upon the seas | M |
| Mayhap they seldom pray high heaven | N |
| Softly on bended knees | M |
| Yet in the roll call of Thy Saints | O |
| Dear Christ remember these | M |
Virna Sheard
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