Repentance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDC EEFGGF HHIJKI LLMNNM OPQNNQ RRDSSD| Lord I confess my sin is great | A |
| Great is my sin Oh gently treat | B |
| With thy quick flow'r thy momentany bloom | C |
| Whose life still pressing | D |
| Is one undressing | D |
| A steady aiming at a tomb | C |
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| Man's age is two hours' work or three | E |
| Each day doth round about us see | E |
| Thus are we to delights but we are all | F |
| To sorrows old | G |
| If life be told | G |
| From what life feeleth Adam's fall | F |
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| O let thy height of mercy then | H |
| Compassionate short breathed men | H |
| Cut me not off for my most foul transgression | I |
| I do confess | J |
| My foolishness | K |
| My God accept of my confession | I |
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| Sweeten at length this bitter bowl | L |
| Which thou hast pour'd into my soul | L |
| Thy wormwood turn to health winds to fair weather | M |
| For if thou stay | N |
| I and this day | N |
| As we did rise we die together | M |
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| When thou for sin rebukest man | O |
| Forthwith he waxeth woe and wan | P |
| Bitterness fills our bowels all our hearts | Q |
| Pine and decay | N |
| And dropp away | N |
| And carry with them th'other parts | Q |
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| But thou wilt sin and grief destroy | R |
| That so the broken bones may joy | R |
| And tune together in a well set song | D |
| Full of his praises | S |
| Who dead men raises | S |
| Fractures well cur'd make us more strong | D |
George Herbert
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