Artillery Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDD EFGFHIJJ KLKFMMNN ODODPPQQ| As I one ev'ning sat before my cell | A |
| Me thoughts a star did shoot into my lap | B |
| I rose and shook my clothes as knowing well | A |
| That from small fires comes oft no small mishap | B |
| When suddenly I heard one say | C |
| Do as thou usest disobey | C |
| Expell good motions from thy breast | D |
| Which have the face of fire but end in rest | D |
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| I who had heard of music in the spheres | E |
| But not of speech in stars began to muse | F |
| But turning to my God whose ministers | G |
| The stars and all things are if I refuse | F |
| Dread Lord said I so oft my good | H |
| Then I refuse not ev'n with blood | I |
| To wash away my stubborn thought | J |
| For I will do or suffer what I ought | J |
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| But I have also stars and shooters too | K |
| Born where thy servants both artilleries use | L |
| My tears and prayers night and day do woo | K |
| And work up to thee yet thou dost refuse | F |
| Not but that I am I must say still | M |
| Much more oblig'd to do thy will | M |
| Than thou to grant mine but because | N |
| Thy promise now hath ev'n set thee thy laws | N |
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| Then we are shooters both and thou dost deign | O |
| To enter combat with us and contest | D |
| With thine own clay But I would parley fain | O |
| Shun not my arrows and behold my breast | D |
| Yet if thou shunnest I am thine | P |
| I must be so if I am mine | P |
| There is no articling with thee | Q |
| I am but finite yet thine infinitely | Q |
George Herbert
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