The Search Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEF GCGC HEHE IEIE JEJE KLKL LMLM CLCL LNLN LNLN OLOL LPLP JEJE MEME| hes are my daily bread | A |
| Yet never prove | B |
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| My knees pierce th'earth mine eies the skie | C |
| And yet the sphere | D |
| And centre both to me denie | E |
| That thou art there | F |
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| Yet can I mark how herbs below | G |
| Grow green and gay | C |
| As if to meet thee they did know | G |
| While I decay | C |
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| Yet can I mark how starres above | H |
| Simper and shine | E |
| As having keyes unto they love | H |
| While poore I pine | E |
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| I sent a sigh to seek thee out | I |
| Deep drawn in pain | E |
| Wing'd like an arrow but my scout | I |
| Returns in vain | E |
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| I tun'd another having store | J |
| Into a grone | E |
| Because the search was dumbe before | J |
| But all was one | E |
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| Lord dost thou some new fabrick mold | K |
| Which favour winnes | L |
| And keeps thee present leaving th' old | K |
| Unto their sinnes | L |
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| Where is my God what hidden place | L |
| Conceals thee still | M |
| What covert dare eclipse thy face | L |
| Is it thy will | M |
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| O let not that of any thing | C |
| Let rather brasse | L |
| Or steel or mountains be thy ring | C |
| And I will passe | L |
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| Thy will such an intrenching is | L |
| As passeth thought | N |
| To it all strength all subtilties | L |
| Are things of nought | N |
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| Thy will such a strange distance is | L |
| As that to it | N |
| East and West touch the poles do kisse | L |
| And parallels meet | N |
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| Since then my grief must be as large | O |
| As is thy space | L |
| Thy distance from me see my charge | O |
| Lord see my case | L |
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| O take these barres these lengths away | L |
| Turn and restore me | P |
| Be not Almightie let me say | L |
| Against but for me | P |
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| When thou dost turn and wilt be neare | J |
| What edge so keen | E |
| What point so piercing can appeare | J |
| To come between | E |
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| For as thy absence doth excell | M |
| All distance known | E |
| So doth thy nearenesse bear the bell | M |
| Making two one | E |
George Herbert
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