Ebb And Flow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEE FGHGII CDCDJJ| When first Thou on me Lord wroughtest Thy sweet print | A |
| My heart was made Thy tinder box | B |
| My 'ffections were Thy tinder in't | C |
| Where fell Thy sparks by drops | D |
| Those holy sparks of heavenly fire that came | E |
| Did ever catch and often out would flame | E |
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| But now my heart is made Thy censer trim | F |
| Full of Thy golden altar's fire | G |
| To offer up sweet incense in | H |
| Unto Thyself entire | G |
| I find my tinder scarce Thy sparks can feel | I |
| That drop from out Thy holy flint and steel | I |
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| Hence doubts out bud for fear Thy fire in me | C |
| 'S a mocking ignis fatuus | D |
| Or lest Thine altar's fire out be | C |
| It's hid in ashes thus | D |
| Yet when the bellows of Thy spirit blow | J |
| Away mine ashes then Thy fire doth glow | J |
Edward Taylor
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