Good Friday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DDEE FFGG HHII JJKK LLMM DDNN OOPP| O my chief good | A |
| How shall I measure out thy blood | B |
| How shall I count what thee befell | C |
| And each grief tell | C |
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| Shall I thy woes | D |
| Number according to thy foes | D |
| Or since one star show'd thy first breath | E |
| Shall all thy death | E |
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| Or shall each leaf | F |
| Which falls in Autumn score a grief | F |
| Or cannot leaves but fruit be sign | G |
| Of the true vine | G |
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| Then let each hour | H |
| Of my whole life one grief devour | H |
| That thy distress through all may run | I |
| And be my sun | I |
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| Or rather let | J |
| My several sins their sorrows get | J |
| That as each beast his cure doth know | K |
| Each sin may so | K |
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| Since blood is fittest Lord to write | L |
| Thy sorrows in and bloody fight | L |
| My heart hath store write there where in | M |
| One box doth lie both ink and sin | M |
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| That when sin spies so many foes | D |
| Thy whips thy nails thy wounds thy woes | D |
| All come to lodge there sin may say | N |
| 'No room for me' and fly away | N |
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| Sin being gone oh fill the place | O |
| And keep possession with thy grace | O |
| Lest sin take courage and return | P |
| And all the writings blot or burn | P |
George Herbert
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