Prayer (i) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGGH GG| Prayer the Church's banquet angels' age | A |
| God's breath in man returning to his birth | B |
| The soul in paraphrase heart in pilgrimage | C |
| The Christian plummet sounding heav'n and earth | B |
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| Engine against th'Almighty sinner's tower | D |
| Reversed thunder Christ side piercing spear | E |
| The six days' world transposing in an hour | D |
| A kind of tune which all things hear and fear | E |
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| Softness and peace and joy and love and bliss | F |
| Exalted manna gladness of the best | G |
| Heaven in ordinary man well drest | G |
| The Milky Way the bird of Paradise | H |
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| Church bells beyond the stars heard the soul's blood | G |
| The land of spices something understood | G |
George Herbert
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