Even-song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDE FGGFHIII JKL MIIM ANNOAIAI| Blest be the God of love | A |
| Who gave me eyes and light and power this day | B |
| Both to be busy and to play | B |
| But much more blest be God above | A |
| Who gave me sight alone | C |
| Which to himself he did deny | D |
| For when he sees my ways I die | D |
| But I have got his son and he hath none | E |
| - | |
| What have I brought thee home | F |
| For this thy love have I discharg'd the debt | G |
| Which this day's favour did beget | G |
| I ran but all I brought was foam | F |
| Thy diet care and cost | H |
| Do end in bubbles balls of wind | I |
| Of wind to thee whom I have crost | I |
| But balls of wild fire to my troubled mind | I |
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| Yet still thou goest on | J |
| And now with darkness closest weary eyes | K |
| Saying to man 'It doth suffice | L |
| Henceforth repose your work is done ' | - |
| Thus in thy Ebony box | M |
| Thou dost enclose us till the day | I |
| Put our amendment in our way | I |
| And give new wheels to our disorder'd clocks | M |
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| I muse which shows more love | A |
| The day or night that is the gale this th' harbour | N |
| That is the walk and this the arbour | N |
| Or that is the garden this the grove | O |
| My God thou art all love | A |
| Not one poor minute scapes thy breast | I |
| But brings a favour from above | A |
| And in this love more than in bed I rest | I |
George Herbert
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