Church Monuments Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCABC DEBDEB CFGCFG HCIHCJ| While that my soul repairs to her devotion | A |
| Here I intomb my flesh that it betimes | B |
| May take acquaintance of this heap of dust | C |
| To which the blast of death's incessant motion | A |
| Fed with the exhalation of our crimes | B |
| Drives all at last Therefore I gladly trust | C |
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| My body to this school that it may learn | D |
| To spell his elements and find his birth | E |
| Written in dusty heraldry and lines | B |
| Which dissolution sure doth best discern | D |
| Comparing dust with dust and earth with earth | E |
| These laugh at jet and marble put for signs | B |
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| To sever the good fellowship of dust | C |
| And spoil the meeting What shall point out them | F |
| When they shall bow and kneel and fall down flat | G |
| To kiss those heaps which now they have in trust | C |
| Dear flesh while I do pray learn here thy stem | F |
| And true descent that when thou shalt grow fat | G |
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| And wanton in thy cravings thou mayst know | H |
| That flesh is but the glass which holds the dust | C |
| That measures all our time which also shall | I |
| Be crumbled into dust Mark here below | H |
| How tame these ashes are how free from lust | C |
| That thou mayst fit thyself against thy fall | J |
George Herbert
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