Mattins Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCDC EFEG EHEH IJIJ KJKJ| A | |
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| I cannot ope mine eyes | B |
| But thou art ready there to catch | C |
| My morning soul and sacrifice | D |
| Then we must needs for that day make a match | C |
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| My God what is a heart | E |
| Silver or gold or precious stone | F |
| Or star or rainbow or a part | E |
| Of all these things or all of them in one | G |
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| My God what is a heart | E |
| That thou should'st it so eye and woo | H |
| Pouring upon it all thy art | E |
| As if that thou hadst nothing else to do | H |
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| Indeed man's whole estate | I |
| Amounts and richly to serve thee | J |
| He did not heav'n and earth create | I |
| Yet studies them not him by whom they be | J |
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| Teach me thy love to know | K |
| That this new light which now I see | J |
| May both the work and workman show | K |
| Then by a sun beam I will climb to thee | J |
George Herbert
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