At The Church-gate Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGBGGB HHIJJI KKHHHH| Although I enter not | A |
| Yet round about the spot | A |
| Ofttimes I hover | B |
| And near the sacred gate | C |
| With longing eyes I wait | C |
| Expectant of her | B |
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| The minster bell tolls out | D |
| Above the city's rout | D |
| And noise and humming | E |
| They've hushed the minster bell | F |
| The organ 'gins to swell | F |
| She's coming coming | E |
| - | |
| My lady comes at last | G |
| Timid and stepping fast | G |
| And hastening hither | B |
| With modest eyes downcast | G |
| She comes she's here she's past | G |
| May heaven go with her | B |
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| Kneel undisturbed fair saint | H |
| Pour out your praise or plaint | H |
| Meekly and duly | I |
| I will not enter there | J |
| To sully your pure prayer | J |
| With thoughts unruly | I |
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| But suffer me to pace | K |
| Round the forbidden place | K |
| Lingering a minute | H |
| Like outcast spirits who wait | H |
| And see through heaven's gate | H |
| Angels within it | H |
William Makepeace Thackeray
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