The Pearl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DBEBFFGHGH IJIJKKLHLH IJIJMMNHNH OPOGQRJHJH| The Kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man | A |
| seeking goodly pearls who when he had found one | B |
| sold all that he had and bought it Matthew | C |
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| I know the ways of Learning both the head | D |
| And pipes that feed the press and make it run | B |
| What reason hath from nature borrowed | E |
| Or of itself like a good huswife spun | B |
| In laws and policy what the stars conspire | F |
| What willing nature speaks what forced by fire | F |
| Both th' old discoveries and the new found seas | G |
| The stock and surplus cause and history | H |
| All these stand open or I have the keys | G |
| Yet I love thee | H |
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| I know the ways of Honour what maintains | I |
| The quick returns of courtesy and wit | J |
| In vies of favours whether party gains | I |
| When glory swells the heart and moldeth it | J |
| To all expressions both of hand and eye | K |
| Which on the world a true love knot may tie | K |
| And bear the bundle wheresoe'er it goes | L |
| How many drams of spirit there must be | H |
| To sell my life unto my friends or foes | L |
| Yet I love thee | H |
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| I know the ways of Pleasure the sweet strains | I |
| The lullings and the relishes of it | J |
| The propositions of hot blood and brains | I |
| What mirth and music mean what love and wit | J |
| Have done these twenty hundred years and more | M |
| I know the projects of unbridled store | M |
| My stuff is flesh not brass my senses live | N |
| And grumble oft that they have more in me | H |
| Than he that curbs them being but one to five | N |
| Yet I love thee | H |
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| I know all these and have them in my hand | O |
| Therefore not sealed but with open eyes | P |
| I fly to thee and fully understand | O |
| Both the main sale and the commodities | G |
| And at what rate and price I have thy love | Q |
| With all the circumstances that may move | R |
| Yet through these labyrinths not my grovelling wit | J |
| But thy silk twist let down from heav'n to me | H |
| Did both conduct and teach me how by it | J |
| To climb to thee | H |
George Herbert
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