The Temper (ii) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA BCCB DEFD GHHG| It cannot be Where is that mighty joy | A |
| Which just now took up all my heart | B |
| Lord if thou must needs use thy dart | B |
| Save that and me or sin for both destroy | A |
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| The grosser world stand to thy word and art | B |
| But thy diviner world of grace | C |
| Thou suddenly dost raise and race | C |
| And ev'ry day a new Creator art | B |
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| O fix thy chair of grace that all my powers | D |
| May also fix their reverence | E |
| For when thou dost depart from hence | F |
| They grow unruly and sit in thy bowers | D |
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| Scatter or bind them all to bend to thee | G |
| Though elements change and heaven move | H |
| Let not thy higher Court remove | H |
| But keep a standing Majesty in me | G |
George Herbert
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