A Dialogue Between The Soul And Body Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBBCDBBEE FAABBGGHHII AJJKKBBHHKL IMMHHIIBBBBIINN| Soul | A |
| O Who shall from this Dungeon raise | B |
| A Soul inslav'd so many wayes | B |
| With bolts of Bones that fetter'd stands | B |
| In Feet and manacled in Hands | B |
| Here blinded with an Eye and there | C |
| Deaf with the drumming of an Ear | D |
| A Soul hung up as 'twere in Chains | B |
| Of Nerves and Arteries and Veins | B |
| Tortur'd besides each other part | E |
| In a vain Head and double Heart | E |
| - | |
| Body | F |
| O who shall me deliver whole | A |
| From bonds of this Tyrannic Soul | A |
| Which stretcht upright impales me so | B |
| That mine own Precipice I go | B |
| And warms and moves this needless Frame | G |
| A Fever could but do the same | G |
| And wanting where its spight to try | H |
| Has made me live to let me dye | H |
| A Body that could never rest | I |
| Since this ill Spirit it possest | I |
| - | |
| Soul | A |
| What Magic could me thus confine | J |
| Within anothers Grief to pine | J |
| Where whatsoever it complain | K |
| I feel that cannot feel the pain | K |
| And all my Care its self employes | B |
| That to preserve which me destroys | B |
| Constrain'd not only to indure | H |
| Diseases but whats worse the Cure | H |
| And ready oft the Port to gain | K |
| Am Shipwrackt into Health again | L |
| - | |
| Body | I |
| But Physick yet could never reach | M |
| The Maladies Thou me dost teach | M |
| Whom first the Cramp of Hope does Tear | H |
| And then the Palsie Shakes of Fear | H |
| The Pestilence of Love does heat | I |
| Or Hatred's hidden Ulcer eat | I |
| Joy's chearful Madness does perplex | B |
| Or Sorrow's other Madness vex | B |
| Which Knowledge forces me to know | B |
| And Memory will not foregoe | B |
| What but a Soul could have the wit | I |
| To build me up for Sin so fit | I |
| So Architects do square and hew | N |
| Green Trees that in the Forest grew | N |
Andrew Marvell
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