Employment (i) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFEF GCGC HIHI AJCJ KLKL| If as a flower doth spread and die | A |
| Thou wouldst extend me to some good | B |
| Before I were by frost's extremity | C |
| Nipt in the bud | D |
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| The sweetness and the praise were thine | E |
| But the extension and the room | F |
| Which in thy garland I should fill were mine | E |
| At thy great doom | F |
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| For as thou dost impart thy grace | G |
| The greater shall our glory be | C |
| The measure of our joys is in this place | G |
| The stuff with thee | C |
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| Let me not languish then and spend | H |
| A life as barren to thy praise | I |
| As is the dust to which that life doth tend | H |
| But with delays | I |
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| All things are busy only I | A |
| Neither bring honey with the bees | J |
| Nor flowers to make that nor the husbandry | C |
| To water these | J |
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| I am no link of thy great chain | K |
| But all my company is a weed | L |
| Lord place me in thy consort give one strain | K |
| To my poor reed | L |
George Herbert
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