The Thraldom Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFF GGHIJJ KLKKMM NOBBPPP| I came I saw and was undone | A |
| Lightning did through my bones and marrow run | A |
| A pointed pain pierc'd deep my heart | B |
| A swift cold trembling seiz'd on every part | B |
| My head turn'd round nor could it bear | C |
| The poison that was enter'd there | C |
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| So a destroying angel's breath | D |
| Blows in the plague and with it hasty death | D |
| Such was the pain did so begin | E |
| To the poor wretch when Legion enter'd in | E |
| 'Forgive me God ' I cry'd for I | F |
| Flatter'd myself I was to die | F |
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| But quickly to my cost I found | G |
| 'T was cruel Love not Death had made the wound | G |
| Death a more generous rage does use | H |
| Quarter to all he conquers does refuse | I |
| Whilst Love with barbarous mercy saves | J |
| The vanquish'd lives to make them slaves | J |
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| I am thy slave then let me know | K |
| Hard master the great task I have to do | L |
| Who pride and scorn do undergo | K |
| In tempests and rough seas thy galleys row | K |
| They pant and groan and sigh but find | M |
| Their sighs increase the angry wind | M |
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| Like an Egyptian tyrant some | N |
| Thou weariest out in building but a tomb | O |
| Others with sad and tedious art | B |
| Labour i' th' quarries of a stony heart | B |
| Of all the works thou dost assign | P |
| To all the several slaves of thine | P |
| Employ me mighty Love to dig the mine | P |
Abraham Cowley
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