The Preface Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCAAADEEFFEEAAGHEE DDIIEEJKEELLEEMMHHNN ECEE| Infinity when all things it beheld | A |
| In Nothing and of Nothing all did build | A |
| Upon what Base was fixt the Lath wherein | B |
| He turn d this Globe and riggalld it so trim | C |
| Who blew the Bellows of His Furnace Vast | A |
| Or held the Mould wherein the world was Cast | A |
| Who laid its Corner Stone Or whose Command | A |
| Where stand the Pillars upon which it stands | D |
| Who Lac de and Fillitted the earth so fine | E |
| With Rivers like green Ribbons Smaragdine | E |
| Who made the Sea's its Selvedge and it locks | F |
| Like a Quilt Ball within a Silver Box | F |
| Who Spread its Canopy Or Curtains Spun | E |
| Who in this Bowling Alley bowld the Sun | E |
| Who made it always when it rises set | A |
| To go at once both down and up to get | A |
| Who th' Curtain rods made for this Tapistry | G |
| Who hung the twinckling Lanthorns in the Sky | H |
| Who who did this or who is he Why know | E |
| It's Onely Might Almighty this did doe | E |
| His hand hath made this noble worke which Stands | D |
| His Glorious Handywork not made by hands | D |
| Who spake all things from nothing and with ease | I |
| Can speake all things to nothing if he please | I |
| Whose Little finger at his pleasure Can | E |
| Out mete ten thousand worlds with halfe a Span | E |
| Whose Might Almighty can by half a looks | J |
| Root up the rocks and rock the hills by th' roots | K |
| Can take this mighty World up in his hande | E |
| And shake it like a Squitchen or a Wand | E |
| Whose single Frown will make the Heavens shake | L |
| Like as an aspen leafe the Winde makes quake | L |
| Oh what a might is this Whose single frown | E |
| Doth shake the world as it would shake it down | E |
| Which All from Nothing fet from Nothing All | M |
| Hath All on Nothing set lets Nothing fall | M |
| Gave All to nothing Man indeed whereby | H |
| Through nothing man all might him Glorify | H |
| In Nothing then embosst the brightest Gem | N |
| More pretious than all pretiousness in them | N |
| But Nothing man did throw down all by Sin | E |
| And darkened that lightsom Gem in him | C |
| That now his Brightest Diamond is grown | E |
| Darker by far than any Coalpit Stone | E |
Edward Taylor
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