A Dialogue Between The Soul And The Body Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDEFFGG H AAIIJJKKLL A MMNNOOPPNQ L RRDSLLTTIILLUU| SOUL | A |
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| O who shall from this dungeon raise | B |
| A soul enslav'd so many ways | B |
| With bolts of bones that fetter'd stands | C |
| In feet and manacled in hands | C |
| Here blinded with an eye and there | D |
| Deaf with the drumming of an ear | E |
| A soul hung up as 'twere in chains | F |
| Of nerves and arteries and veins | F |
| Tortur'd besides each other part | G |
| In a vain head and double heart | G |
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| BODY | H |
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| O who shall me deliver whole | A |
| From bonds of this tyrannic soul | A |
| Which stretch'd upright impales me so | I |
| That mine own precipice I go | I |
| And warms and moves this needless frame | J |
| A fever could but do the same | J |
| And wanting where its spite to try | K |
| Has made me live to let me die | K |
| A body that could never rest | L |
| Since this ill spirit it possest | L |
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| SOUL | A |
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| What magic could me thus confine | M |
| Within another's grief to pine | M |
| Where whatsoever it complain | N |
| I feel that cannot feel the pain | N |
| And all my care itself employs | O |
| That to preserve which me destroys | O |
| Constrain'd not only to endure | P |
| Diseases but what's worse the cure | P |
| And ready oft the port to gain | N |
| Am shipwreck'd into health again | Q |
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| BODY | L |
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| But physic yet could never reach | R |
| The maladies thou me dost teach | R |
| Whom first the cramp of hope does tear | D |
| And then the palsy shakes of fear | S |
| The pestilence of love does heat | L |
| Or hatred's hidden ulcer eat | L |
| Joy's cheerful madness does perplex | T |
| Or sorrow's other madness vex | T |
| Which knowledge forces me to know | I |
| And memory will not forego | I |
| What but a soul could have the wit | L |
| To build me up for sin so fit | L |
| So architects do square and hew | U |
| Green trees that in the forest grew | U |
Andrew Marvell
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