To Heaven Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDAAEFAAGHCCII JJKKAA| Good and great God can I not think of thee | A |
| But it must straight my melancholy bee | A |
| Is it interpreted in mee disease | B |
| That laden with my sinnes I seeke for ease | B |
| O be thou witnesse that the reines dost know | C |
| And hearts of all if I be sad for show | C |
| And judge mee after if I dare pretend | D |
| To ought but grace or ayme at other end | D |
| As thou art all so be thou all to mee | A |
| First midst and last converted one and three | A |
| My faith my hope my love and in this state | E |
| My judge my witnesse and my advocate | F |
| Where have I been this while exil'd from thee | A |
| And whither rapt now thou but stoup'st to mee | A |
| Dwell dwell here still O being every where | G |
| How can I doubt to finde thee ever here | H |
| I know my state both full of shame and scorne | C |
| Conceiv'd in sinne and unto labour borne | C |
| Standing with feare and must with horror fall | I |
| And destin'd unto judgement after all | I |
| I feele my griefes too and there scarce is ground | J |
| Upon my flesh t'inflict another wound | J |
| Yet dare I not complaine or wish for death | K |
| With holy Paul lest it be thought the breath | K |
| Of Discontent or that these prayers bee | A |
| For wearinesse of life not love of thee | A |
Ben Jonson
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