Affliction (iii) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAAA CAACDE FGGFHH| My heart did heave and there came forth 'O God' | A |
| By that I knew that thou wast in the grief | B |
| To guide and govern it to my relief | B |
| Making a sceptre of the rod | A |
| Hadst thou not had thy part | A |
| Sure the unruly sigh had broke my heart | A |
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| But since thy breath gave me both life and shape | C |
| Thou know'st my tallies and when there's assigned | A |
| So much breath to a sigh what's then behind | A |
| Or if some years with it escape | C |
| The sigh then only is | D |
| A gale to bring me sooner to my bliss | E |
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| Thy life on earth was grief and thou art still | F |
| Constant unto it making it to be | G |
| A point of honour now to grieve in me | G |
| And in thy members suffer ill | F |
| They who lament one cross | H |
| Thou dying daily praise thee to thy loss | H |
George Herbert
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