Sepulchre Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDDCEEEFCCFGGGCH HHC| O blessed body Whither are thou thrown | A |
| No lodging for thee but a cold hard stone | A |
| So many hearts on earth and yet not one | B |
| Receive thee | C |
| Sure there is room within our hearts' good store | D |
| For they can lodge transgressions by the score | D |
| Thousands of toys dwell there yet out of door | D |
| They leave thee | C |
| But that which shows them large shows them unfit | E |
| What ever sin did this pure rock commit | E |
| Which holds thee now Who hath indicted it | E |
| Of murder | F |
| Where our hard hearts have took up stories to brain thee | C |
| And missing this most falsely did arraign thee | C |
| And order | F |
| And as of old the law by heav'nly art | G |
| Was writ in stone so thou which also art | G |
| The letter of the word find'st no fit heart | G |
| To hold thee | C |
| Yet do we still persist as we began | H |
| And so should perish but that nothing can | H |
| Though it be cold hard foul from loving man | H |
| Withold thee | C |
George Herbert
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