The Windows Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBB DEDEE FGHGG| Lord how can man preach thy eternall word | A |
| He is a brittle crazie glasse | B |
| Yet in thy temple thou dost him afford | C |
| This glorious and transcendent place | B |
| To be a window through thy grace | B |
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| But when thou dost anneal in glasse thy storie | D |
| Making thy life to shine within | E |
| The holy Preachers then the light and glorie | D |
| More rev'rend grows more doth win | E |
| Which else shows watrish bleak thin | E |
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| Doctrine and life colours and light in one | F |
| When they combine and mingle bring | G |
| A strong regard and aw but speech alone | H |
| Doth vanish like a flaring thing | G |
| And in the eare not conscience ring | G |
George Herbert
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