The H. Communion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACC DEEDFF GHHGII JAKLMM NANA OPOP QAQA RSRT| Not in rich furniture or fine array | A |
| Nor in a wedge of gold | B |
| Thou who from me wast sold | B |
| To me dost now thy self convey | A |
| For so thou should'st without me still have been | C |
| Leaving within me sin | C |
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| But by the way of nourishment and strength | D |
| Thou creep'st into my breast | E |
| Making thy way my rest | E |
| And thy small quantities my length | D |
| Which spread their forces into every part | F |
| Meeting sin's force and art | F |
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| Yet can these not get over to my soul | G |
| Leaping the wall that parts | H |
| Our souls and fleshly hearts | H |
| But as th'outworks they may control | G |
| My rebel flesh and carrying thy name | I |
| Affright both sin and shame | I |
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| Only thy grace which with these elements comes | J |
| Knoweth the ready way | A |
| And hath the privy key | K |
| Op'ning the soul's most subtle rooms | L |
| While those to spirits refin'd at door attend | M |
| Dispatches from their friend | M |
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| Give me my captive soul or take | N |
| My body also thither | A |
| Another lift like this will make | N |
| Them both to be together | A |
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| Before that sin turn'd flesh into stone | O |
| And all our lump to leaven | P |
| A fervent sigh might well have blown | O |
| Our innocent earth to heaven | P |
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| For sure when Adam did not know | Q |
| To sin or sin to smother | A |
| He might to heav'n from Paradise go | Q |
| As from one room t'another | A |
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| Thou hast restor'd to us this ease | R |
| By this thy heav'nly blood | S |
| Which I can go to when I please | R |
| And leave th'earth to their food | T |
George Herbert
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