Good Friday Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EFGG HHII JJBK AALL BKMM NNLL OOPP QQRR SSLL TTLL UURR VVWW UXLL IIYY ZZZZ| At last the bird that sang so long | A |
| In twilight circles hushed his song | A |
| Above the ancient square | B |
| The stars came here and there | B |
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| Good Friday night Some hearts were bowed | C |
| But some amid the waiting crowd | C |
| Because of too much youth | D |
| Felt not that mystic ruth | D |
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| And of these hearts my heart was one | E |
| Nor when beneath the arch of stone | F |
| With dirge and candle flame | G |
| The cross of passion came | G |
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| Did my glad spirit feel reproof | H |
| Though on the awful tree aloof | H |
| Unspiritual dead | I |
| Drooped the ensanguined Head | I |
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| To one who stood where myrtles made | J |
| A little space of deeper shade | J |
| As I could half descry | B |
| A stranger even as I | K |
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| I said These youths who bear along | A |
| The symbols of their Saviour's wrong | A |
| The spear the garment torn | L |
| The flaggel and the thorn | L |
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| Why do they make this mummery | B |
| Would not a brave man gladly die | K |
| For a much smaller thing | M |
| Than to be Christ and king | M |
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| He answered nothing and I turned | N |
| Throned in its hundred candles burned | N |
| The jeweled eidolon | L |
| Of her who bore the Son | L |
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| The crowd was prostrate still I felt | O |
| No shame until the stranger knelt | O |
| Then not to kneel almost | P |
| Seemed like a vulgar boast | P |
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| I knelt The doll face waxen white | Q |
| Flowered out a living dimness bright | Q |
| Dawned the dear mortal grace | R |
| Of my own mother's face | R |
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| When we were risen up the street | S |
| Was vacant all the air hung sweet | S |
| With lemon flowers and soon | L |
| The sky would hold the moon | L |
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| More silently than new found friends | T |
| To whom much silence makes amends | T |
| For the much babble vain | L |
| While yet their lives were twain | L |
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| We walked along the odorous hill | U |
| The light was little yet his will | U |
| I could not see to trace | R |
| Upon his form or face | R |
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| So when aloft the gold moon broke | V |
| I cried heart stung As one who woke | V |
| He turned unto my cries | W |
| The anguish of his eyes | W |
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| Friend Master I cried falteringly | U |
| Thou seest the thing they make of thee | X |
| Oh by the light divine | L |
| My mother shares with thine | L |
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| I beg that I may lay my head | I |
| Upon thy shoulder and be fed | I |
| With thoughts of brotherhood | Y |
| So through the odorous wood | Y |
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| More silently than friends new found | Z |
| We walked At the first meadow bound | Z |
| His figure ashen stoled | Z |
| Sank in the moon's broad gold | Z |
William Vaughn Moody
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