Preparatory Meditations - Second Series: 143 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDCDEE FGHGIJ DKDKLL MNEOPP QRSRTT UPVPHH WXWYRR TTTTTT RRRRR XZXZR XTXTA2A2| Canticles Who is She that Looks Forth as the Morning | A |
| Fair as the Moon Clear as the Sun Terrible as an Army with Banners | B |
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| Wonders amazed Am I espoused to Thee | C |
| My glorious Lord What Shall my bit of clay | D |
| Be made more bright than brightest angels be | C |
| Look forth like as the morning every way | D |
| And shall my lump of dirts wear such attire | E |
| Rise up in heavenly ornaments thus higher | E |
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| But still the wonders stand shall I look like | F |
| The glorious morning that doth gild the sky | G |
| With golden beams that make all day grow light | H |
| And view the world o'er with its golden eye | G |
| And shall I rise like fair as the fair moon | I |
| And bright as in the sun that lights each room | J |
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| When we behold a piece of China clay | D |
| Formed up into a China dish complete | K |
| All spiced o'er with gold sparks display | D |
| Their beauty all under a glass robe neat | K |
| We gaze thereat and wonder rise up will | L |
| Wond'ring to see the Chinese art and skill | L |
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| How then should we and angels but admire | M |
| Thy skill and vessel Thou hast made bright thus | N |
| Out for to look like to the morning tire | E |
| That shineth out in all bright heavenly plush | O |
| Whose golden beams all varnish o'er the skies | P |
| And gild our canopy in golden wise | P |
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| Wonders are nonplussed to behold Thy spouse | Q |
| Look forth like to the morning whose sweet rays | R |
| Gild o'er our skies as with transparent boughs | S |
| Like orient gold of a celestial blaze | R |
| Fair as the moon bright as the sun most clear | T |
| Gilding with spiritual gold grace's bright sphere | T |
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| O blessed Virgin spouse shall thy sharp looks | U |
| Gild o'er the objects of thy shining eyes | P |
| Like fairest moon and brightest sun do th' fruits | V |
| Even as that make the morning shining rise | P |
| The fairest moon in 'ts socket's candle light | H |
| Unto the night and th' sun's day's candle bright | H |
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| Thy spouse's robes all made of spiritual silk | W |
| Of th' web wove in the heaven's bright loom indeed | X |
| By the Holy Spirit's hand more white than milk | W |
| And fitted to attire thy soul that needs | Y |
| As th' morning bright's made of the sun's bright rays | R |
| So th' Spirit's web thy soul's rich loom o'erlays | R |
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| Oh Spouse adorned like the morning clear | T |
| Chasing the night out from its hemisphere | T |
| And like the fair face of the moon whose cheer | T |
| Is very brave and like the bright sun 'pear | T |
| Thus gloriously fitted in brightest story | T |
| Of grace espoused to be the king of glory | T |
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| And thus decked up methinks my ear attends | R |
| Kings' queens' and ladies' query 'Who is this | R |
| Enravished at her sight how she out sends | R |
| Her looks like to the morning filled with bliss | R |
| Fair as the moon clear as the sun in 'ts costs | R |
| And terrible as is a bannered host ' | - |
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| And all in grace's colors thus bedight | X |
| That do transcend with glory's shine the sun | Z |
| And moon for fairness and for glorious light | X |
| As doth the sun a glowworm's shine outrun | Z |
| No wonder then and if the Bridesgroom say | R |
| 'Thou art all fair my Love Yea everyway ' | - |
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| May I a member be my Lord once made | X |
| Here of Thy spouse in truest sense though it be | T |
| The meanest of all a toe or finger 'rayd | X |
| I'st have enough bliss espoused to Thee | T |
| Then I in brightest glory ere 't be long | A2 |
| Will honor Thee singing that wedden song | A2 |
Edward Taylor
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