Grace Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DBDC ECEC FBFC GCGC HBH| My stock lies dead and no increase | A |
| Doth my dull husbandry improve | B |
| O let thy graces without cease | A |
| Drop from above | C |
| - | |
| If still the sun should hide his face | D |
| Thy house would but a dungeon prove | B |
| Thy works night's captives O let grace | D |
| Drop from above | C |
| - | |
| The dew doth ev'ry morning fall | E |
| And shall the dew outstrip thy dove | C |
| The dew for which grass cannot call | E |
| Drop from above | C |
| - | |
| Death is still working like a mole | F |
| And digs my grave at each remove | B |
| Let grace work too and on my soul | F |
| Drop from above | C |
| - | |
| Sin is still hammering my heart | G |
| Unto a hardness void of love | C |
| Let suppling grace to cross his art | G |
| Drop from above | C |
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| O come for thou dost know the way | H |
| Or if to me thou wilt not move | B |
| Remove me where I need not say | H |
| 'Drop from above ' | - |
George Herbert
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