S. Elizabeth's Leper Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCDDEEFF GHIJKKLMNN FOFF| My lord there came unto the gate | A |
| One in such pitiful estate | A |
| So all forlorn and desolate | B |
| Ill fed ill clad of ills compact | C |
| A leper too his poor flesh wracked | C |
| And dead his very bones infect | D |
| Of all God's sons none so abject | D |
| I could not on the Lord's own day | E |
| Turn such a stricken one away | E |
| In pity him I took and fed | F |
| And happed him in our royal bed | F |
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| A leper in our bed Nay then | G |
| My Queen thy charities do pass | H |
| The bounds of sense at times A bane | I |
| On such unwholesome tenderness | J |
| Dost nothing owe to him who shares | K |
| Thy couch and suffers by thy cares | K |
| He could have slept upon the floor | L |
| And left you still his creditor | M |
| A leper in my bed God's truth | N |
| Out upon such outrageous ruth | N |
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| He strode in anger towards the bed | F |
| And lo | O |
| The Christ with thorn crowned head | F |
| Lay there in sweet sleep pillowed | F |
William Arthur Dunkerley (john Oxenham)
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