On The Way To Church Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDB EEFGGF HHIJJI KKLMML NNOPPO QQRSSR| There is one I know I see her sometimes pass | A |
| In the morning streets upon her way to Mass | A |
| A calm sweet woman with unearthly eyes | B |
| Men turn to look at her but ever stop | C |
| Reading in those blue depths the death of hope | D |
| And a wise chastisement for thoughts unwise | B |
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| Pure is her brow as of a marble Saint | E |
| Her brown hair pencils it with ripples faint | E |
| There is no shadow on it and no light | F |
| Her cheeks are pale like lilies in eclipse | G |
| Hardly a little redness on her lips | G |
| Paints the sad smile where all the rest is white | F |
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| Tall is she and bent forward like a reed | H |
| Which the wind toys with as she walks with speed | H |
| Girl like her limbs and virginal her waist | I |
| Of the world's wonders there is none so sweet | J |
| As this the summer lightning of her feet | J |
| Speeding her onward like a fawn in haste | I |
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| What is her secret All the world has tried | K |
| To guess it One I knew in guessing died | K |
| And was no wiser for his mortal pain | L |
| Each has turned sadder from the thankless quest | M |
| And gone back silent even if he guessed | M |
| Knowing all answer would be counted vain | L |
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| I knew her once I know her not to day | N |
| Our eyes meet sometimes but hers turn away | N |
| Quicker from mine than from the rest that look | O |
| Her pale cheek quivers a flush comes and goes | P |
| As in the presence of a soul that knows | P |
| And her hands tighten on her missal book | O |
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| Men have done evil yet have won to Heaven | Q |
| Lived in blood guiltiness yet died forgiven | Q |
| May I not I too one day win my grace | R |
| Ah no The sacrilege of this worst sin | S |
| Outweighs all grace I dare not enter in | S |
| Nor kneel God's robber near that angel face | R |
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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