The Agony Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF EGHGII| Philosophers have measur'd mountains | A |
| Fathom'd the depths of the seas of states and kings | B |
| Walk'd with a staff to heav'n and traced fountains | A |
| But there are two vast spacious things | B |
| The which to measure it doth more behove | C |
| Yet few there are that sound them Sin and Love | C |
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| Who would know SIn let him repair | D |
| Unto mount Olivet there shall he see | E |
| A man so wrung with pains that all his hair | D |
| His skin his garments bloody be | E |
| Sin is that press and vice which forceth pain | F |
| To hunt his cruel food through ev'ry vein | F |
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| Who knows not Love let him assay | E |
| And taste that juice which on the cross a pike | G |
| Did set again abroach then let him say | H |
| If ever he did taste the like | G |
| Love is that liquor sweet and most divine | I |
| Which my God feels as blood but I as wine | I |
George Herbert
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