Peace Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBC DEDFGF EFEHFH IJ IKJK ALAMLN OPOQPQ LRLCRC| Sweet Peace where dost thou dwell I humbly crave | A |
| Let me once know | B |
| I sought thee in a secret cave | A |
| And ask'd if Peace were there | C |
| A hollow wind did seem to answer No | B |
| Go seek elsewhere | C |
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| I did and going did a rainbow note | D |
| Surely thought I | E |
| This is the lace of Peace's coat | D |
| I will search out the matter | F |
| But while I looked the clouds immediately | G |
| Did break and scatter | F |
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| Then went I to a garden and did spy | E |
| A gallant flower | F |
| The crown imperial Sure said I | E |
| Peace at the root must dwell | H |
| But when I digged I saw a worm devour | F |
| What showed so well | H |
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| At length I met a rev'rend good old man | I |
| Whom when for Peace | J |
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| I did demand he thus began | I |
| There was a Prince of old | K |
| At Salem dwelt who lived with good increase | J |
| Of flock and fold | K |
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| He sweetly lived yet sweetness did not save | A |
| His life from foes | L |
| But after death out of his grave | A |
| There sprang twelve stalks of wheat | M |
| Which many wond'ring at got some of those | L |
| To plant and set | N |
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| It prospered strangely and did soon disperse | O |
| Through all the earth | P |
| For they that taste it do rehearse | O |
| That virtue lies therein | Q |
| A secret virtue bringing peace and mirth | P |
| By flight of sin | Q |
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| Take of this grain which in my garden grows | L |
| And grows for you | R |
| Make bread of it and that repose | L |
| And peace which ev'ry where | C |
| With so much earnestness you do pursue | R |
| Is only there | C |
George Herbert
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