The Temper Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIK LMLM NJNJ| How should I praise thee Lord how should my rhymes | A |
| Gladly engrave thy love in steel | B |
| If what my soul doth feel sometimes | A |
| My soul might ever feel | B |
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| Although there were some forty heav'ns or more | C |
| Sometimes I peer above them all | D |
| Sometimes I hardly reach a score | C |
| Sometimes to hell I fall | D |
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| O rack me not to such a vast extent | E |
| Those distances belong to thee | F |
| The world's too little for thy tent | E |
| A grave too big for me | F |
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| Wilt thou meet arms with man that thou dost stretch | G |
| A crum of dust from heav'n to hell | H |
| Will great God measure with a wretch | G |
| Shall he thy stature spell | H |
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| O let me when thy roof my soul hath hid | I |
| O let me roost and nestle there | J |
| Then of a sinner thou art rid | I |
| And I of hope and fear | K |
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| Yet take thy way for sure thy way is best | L |
| Stretch or contract me thy poor debtor | M |
| This is but tuning of my breast | L |
| To make the music better | M |
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| Whether I fly with angels fall with dust | N |
| Thy hands made both and I am there | J |
| Thy power and love my love and trust | N |
| Make one place ev'ry where | J |
George Herbert
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