Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBA DEFEDFE GHIHGI JAJKAL MMNHOH PQPRRS GBBTUGT VWXYWX ZA2ZA2GG| My God I heard this day | A |
| That none doth build a stately habitation | B |
| But he that means to dwell therein | C |
| What house more stately hath there been | C |
| Or can be than is Man to whose creation | B |
| All things are in decay | A |
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| For Man is ev'ry thing | D |
| And more | E |
| He is a tree yet bears no fruit | F |
| A beast yet is or should be more | E |
| Reason and speech we only bring | D |
| Parrots may thank us if they are not mute | F |
| They go upon the score | E |
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| Man is all symmetry | G |
| Full of proportions one limb to another | H |
| And all to all the world besides | I |
| Each part may call the farthest brother | H |
| For head with foot hath private amity | G |
| And both with moons and tides | I |
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| Nothing hath got so far | J |
| But Man hath caught and kept it as his prey | A |
| His eyes dismount the highest star | J |
| He is in little all the sphere | K |
| Herbs gladly cure our flesh because that they | A |
| Find their acquaintance there | L |
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| For us the winds do blow | M |
| The earth doth rest heav'n move and fountains flow | M |
| Nothing we see but means our good | N |
| As our delight or as our treasure | H |
| The whole is either our cupboard of food | O |
| Or cabinet of pleasure | H |
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| The stars have us to bed | P |
| Night draws the curtain which the sun withdraws | Q |
| Music and light attend our head | P |
| All things unto our flesh are kind | R |
| In their descent and being to our mind | R |
| In their ascent and cause | S |
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| Each thing is full of duty | G |
| Waters united are our navigation | B |
| Distinguished our habitation | B |
| Below our drink above our meat | T |
| Both are our cleanliness | U |
| Hath one such beauty | G |
| Then how are all things neat | T |
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| More servants wait on Man | V |
| Than he'll take notice of in ev'ry path | W |
| He treads down that which doth befriend him | X |
| When sickness makes him pale and wan | Y |
| Oh mighty love Man is one world and hath | W |
| Another to attend him | X |
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| Since then my God thou hast | Z |
| So brave a palace built O dwell in it | A2 |
| That it may dwell with thee at last | Z |
| Till then afford us so much wit | A2 |
| That as the world serves us we may serve thee | G |
| And both thy servants be | G |
George Herbert
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