The H. Scriptures I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFFEGGOh Book infinite sweetness let my heart | A |
Suck ev'ry letter and a honey gain | B |
Precious for any grief in any part | A |
To clear the breast to mollify all pain | B |
Thou art all health health thriving till it make | C |
A full eternity thou art a mass | D |
Of strange delights where we may wish and take | C |
Ladies look here this is the thankfull glass | D |
That mends the looker's eyes this is the well | E |
That washes what it shows Who can endear | F |
Thy praise too much thou art heav'n's Lidger here | F |
Working against the states of death and hell | E |
Thou art joy's handsel heav'n lies flat in thee | G |
Subject to ev'ry mounter's bended knee | G |
George Herbert
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