Sighs And Groans Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEA AFGFGA AHIHIA AJKJLA AMNMNA| O do not use me | A |
| After my sins look not on my dessert | B |
| But on your glory Then you will reform | C |
| And not refuse me for you only art | D |
| The mighty God but I a silly worm | E |
| O do not bruise me | A |
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| O do not urge me | A |
| For what account can your ill steward make | F |
| I have abused your stock destroyed your woods | G |
| Sucked all your storehouses my head did ache | F |
| Till it found out how to consume your goods | G |
| O do not scourge me | A |
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| O do not blind me | A |
| I have deserved that an Egyptian night | H |
| Should thicken all my powers because my lust | I |
| Has still sewed fig leaves to exclude your light | H |
| But I am frailty and already dust | I |
| O do not grind me | A |
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| O do not fill me | A |
| With the turned vial of your bitter wrath | J |
| For you have other vessels full of blood | K |
| A part whereof my Savior emptied hath | J |
| Even unto death since he died for my good | L |
| O do not kill me | A |
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| But O reprieve me | A |
| For you have life and death at your command | M |
| You are both Judge and Savior feast and rod | N |
| Cordial and Corrosive put not your hand | M |
| Into the bitter box but O my God | N |
| My God relieve me | A |
George Herbert
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