A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet Xxiii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBCCDCDCE| Voltaire and Rousseau these were thy twin priests | A |
| Proud Mother Nature on thy opening day | B |
| The first with bitter gibes perplexed the feasts | A |
| Of thy high rival and prepared the way | B |
| The other built thy shrine 'Twas here men say | B |
| De Warens lived whose pleasure was the text | C |
| Of the new gospel of the sons of clay | B |
| The latest born of time by faith unvexed | C |
| Here for a century with reverent feet | C |
| Pilgrims oppressed with barrenness of soul | D |
| Toiled in their tears as to a Paraclete | C |
| On these white hills they heard Earth's thunders roll | D |
| In sneers outpreaching the lost voice of God | C |
| And shouted Ichabod ay Ichabod '' | E |
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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